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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.26

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: Sītā begins with her birth: while Janaka was ploughing, she emerged from the opened earth → the childless King took her up as his daughter, a voice from the sky confirmed the relationship, and his Queen raised her

2.110.26

mithilādhipatir vīro janako nāma dharmavit
kṣatradharmaṇy abhirato nyāyataḥ śāsti medinīm

“The heroic lord of Mithilā, Janaka by name, a knower of dharma, devoted to the duty of the warrior, rules the earth by justice.

Words: mithilādhipatir — the lord of Mithilā; vīro — heroic; janako — Janaka; nāma — by name; dharmavit — knower of dharma; kṣatradharmaṇy — in the duty of the kṣatriya; abhirato — devoted, engaged; nyāyataḥ — according to justice, rightly; śāsti — rules, governs; medinīm — the earth

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.