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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.35

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: when she reached marriageable age, Janaka worried about finding a suitable husband for a daughter with such an unusual origin → he decided to hold a contest

2.110.35

tāṃ dharṣaṇām adūrasthāṃ saṃdṛśyātmani pārthivaḥ
cinntārṇavagataḥ pāraṃ nāsasādāplavo yatha

Seeing that humiliation looming near upon himself, the king, plunged into a sea of anxiety, could not reach its farther shore, like one without a raft.

Words: tāṃ — that; dharṣaṇām — humiliation; adūrasthāṃ — standing not far off, near; saṃdṛśyātmani — seeing upon himself; pārthivaḥ — the king; cinntārṇavagataḥ — fallen into the sea of anxiety; pāraṃ — the farther shore; nāsasādāplavo — did not reach, being without a raft; yatha — as, like

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.