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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.28

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

2.110.28

sa māṃ dṛṣṭvā narapatir muṣṭivikṣepatatparaḥ
pāṃśu guṇṭhita sarvāṅgīṃ vismito janako 'bhavat

That lord of men, Janaka, intent on casting seed-grain from his fist, was astonished on seeing me, all my limbs covered with dust.

Words: sa — he; māṃ — me; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; narapatir — the lord of men; muṣṭivikṣepatatparaḥ — intent on scattering handfuls (of seed); pāṃśu guṇṭhita sarvāṅgīṃ — (me) with all limbs covered in dust; vismito — astonished; janako — Janaka; 'bhavat — became

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.