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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.110.41

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

2.110.41

idaṃ ca dhanur udyamya sajyaṃ yaḥ kurute naraḥ
tasya me duhitā bhāryā bhaviṣyati na saṃśayaḥ

‘Whatever man, lifting up this bow, can string it, to him my daughter shall become a wife — of this there is no doubt.’

Words: idaṃ — this; ca — and; dhanur — bow; udyamya — having lifted up; sajyaṃ — strung, with the bowstring on; yaḥ — who; kurute — makes, does; naraḥ — man; tasya — to him, his; me — my; duhitā — daughter; bhāryā — wife; bhaviṣyati — shall become; na saṃśayaḥ — no doubt

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.