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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.109.11
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 109: Rāma leaves Citrakūṭa for Atri. Family memories and the army’s animal waste prompt departure, Atri recounts Anasūyā’s relief of a ten-year drought and sends Sītā to her
In the sequence: he credits her with ten thousand years of austerities and with compressing ten nights into one for a divine purpose
2.109.11
daśavarṣasahasrāṇi yayā taptaṃ mahat tapaḥ
anasūyāvratais tāta pratyūhāś ca nibarhitāḥ
by whom great penance was practiced for ten thousand years, and by whose envy-free observances, my son, obstacles were dispelled,
Words: daśavarṣasahasrāṇi — for ten thousand years; yayā — by whom; taptaṃ — was practiced (lit. heated); mahat tapaḥ — great penance; anasūyāvratais — by (her) envy-free observances; tāta — my son; pratyūhāś ca — and obstacles; nibarhitāḥ — dispelled, destroyed
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.