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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.76.12
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 76: Return to Ayodhyā: The couples’ reception and married life. Rāma gives the bow to Varuṇa and comforts Daśaratha, Ayodhyā welcomes the couples and Rāma & Sītā grow in mutual affection
In the sequence: the brides worship at the temples and salute their elders before retiring happily with their husbands. Married, trained in weapons, and surrounded by friends and prosperity, the princes continue serving their father
1.76.12
kṛtadārāḥ kṛtāstrāś ca sadhanāḥ sasuhṛjjanāḥ
śuśrūṣamāṇāḥ pitaraṃ vartayanti nararṣabhāḥ
Having taken wives and mastered weapons, possessed of wealth and of friends, those bulls among men lived on, attending upon their father.
Words: kṛtadārāḥ — having taken wives; kṛtāstrāś — having mastered weapons; ca — and; sadhanāḥ — possessed of wealth; sasuhṛjjanāḥ — with their friends and well-wishers; śuśrūṣamāṇāḥ — attending upon, serving; pitaraṃ — their father; vartayanti — lived, passed their time; nararṣabhāḥ — bulls among men
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.