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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.19
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 110: Anasūyā’s gifts and Sītā’s story. Sītā receives clothing, ornaments and unfading cosmetic, then recounts her earth-birth, the bow and marriage
In the sequence: Anasūyā nevertheless gives her divine clothing, ornaments, a garland, and an unfading cosmetic
2.110.19
aṅgarāgeṇa divyena liptāṅgī janakātmaje
śobhayiṣyāmi bhartāraṃ yathā śrīr viṣṇum avyayam
O daughter of Janaka, with your limbs anointed by this divine cosmetic I shall make you grace your husband, as Śrī graces the imperishable Viṣṇu.
Words: aṅgarāgeṇa — with the body-cosmetic; divyena — divine; liptāṅgī — with anointed limbs; janakātmaje — O daughter of Janaka; śobhayiṣyāmi — I shall make (you) grace; bhartāraṃ — the husband; yathā — as; śrīr — Śrī (goddess of fortune); viṣṇum — Viṣṇu; avyayam — the imperishable
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.