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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.40

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: in this account, Varuṇa had given Janaka a mighty bow and two inexhaustible quivers at a sacrifice → Janaka set the lifting and stringing of the bow as the condition for marrying her → the assembled Kings could not lift it and withdrew

2.110.40

tad dhanuḥ prāpya me pitrā vyāhṛtaṃ satyavādinā
samavāye narendrāṇāṃ pūrvam āmantrya pārthivān

Taking up that bow, my truth-speaking father, having first summoned the princes, declared in the assembly of kings:

Words: tad — that; dhanuḥ — bow; prāpya — having taken up, obtained; me — my; pitrā — by (my) father; vyāhṛtaṃ — declared, proclaimed; satyavādinā — by the truth-speaker; samavāye — in the assembly; narendrāṇāṃ — of the kings; pūrvam — first; āmantrya — having summoned, invited; pārthivān — the princes, kings

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.