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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.27

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

2.110.27

tasya lāṅgalahastasya karṣataḥ kṣetramaṇḍalam
ahaṃ kilotthitā bhittvā jagatīṃ nṛpateḥ sutā

As he, plough in hand, was tilling the round of the field, I — the king's daughter — so it is said, rose up cleaving the earth.

Words: tasya — of him, his; lāṅgalahastasya — (of him) plough in hand; karṣataḥ — ploughing, tilling; kṣetramaṇḍalam — the circle of the field; ahaṃ — I; kilotthitā — so it is said, rose up; bhittvā — having split, cleaving; jagatīṃ — the earth; nṛpateḥ — of the king; sutā — daughter

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.