← 1.9.27 · Bāla Kāṇḍa 9: Story of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga: Courtesans, rain and marriage · 1.9.29 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.9.28

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: as he is brought into the Kingdom, rain suddenly falls

1.9.28

tatra cānīyamāne tu vipre tasmin mahātmani
vavarṣa sahasā devo jagat prahlādayaṃs tadā

And while that great-souled brahmin was being brought there, the god suddenly sent down rain, gladdening the world.

Words: tatra — there; cānīyamāne — and (while) being brought; tu — and; vipre — the brahmin (loc. abs.); tasmin — that; mahātmani — great-souled; vavarṣa — rained; sahasā — suddenly; devo — the god (the rain-god); jagat — the world; prahlādayaṃs — gladdening; tadā — then

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.