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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.9.13

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 9: Story of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga: Courtesans, rain and marriage. Courtesans lure Ṛṣyaśṛṅga from his father’s forest hermitage, rain ends Aṅga’s drought and Romapāda gives him Śāntā in marriage

In the sequence: attracted by their unfamiliar appearance, he names himself and his father and invites them home

1.9.13

adṛṣṭarūpās tās tena kāmyarūpā vane striyaḥ
hārdāt tasya matir jātā ākhyātuṃ pitaraṃ svakam

Those women in the forest, of a form never seen by him, of alluring beauty — out of the warmth of his heart a wish arose in him to tell of his own father:

Words: adṛṣṭarūpās — of a form never seen; tās — those; tena — by him; kāmyarūpā — of alluring beauty; vane — in the forest; striyaḥ — women; hārdāt — out of the warmth of the heart, affection; tasya — in him, his; matir — a wish, thought; jātā — arose; ākhyātuṃ — to tell, describe; pitaraṃ — the father; svakam — his own

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.