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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.29

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

2.110.29

anapatyena ca snehād aṅkam āropya ca svayam
mameyaṃ tanayety uktvā sneho mayi nipātitaḥ

And he, being childless, out of affection lifted me himself onto his lap, and saying, ‘This is my daughter,’ bestowed his love upon me.

Words: anapatyena — by him being childless; ca — and; snehād — out of affection; aṅkam — onto the lap; āropya — having lifted, placed; ca — and; svayam — himself; mameyaṃ — this is mine; tanayety — ‘(is my) daughter’, thus; uktvā — having said; sneho — affection, love; mayi — upon me; nipātitaḥ — was bestowed, cast down

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.