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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.31.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 31: A throne or one more night. Daśaratha urges Rāma to take the Kingdom, then begs him to stay overnight, Rāma refuses to delay the promise

In the sequence: Daśaratha gathers his wives and has the three travelers admitted

2.31.10

ardhasaptaśatās tās tu pramadās tāmralocanāḥ
kausalyāṃ parivāryātha śanair jagmur dhṛtavratāḥ

Those six hundred and fifty women with copper-red eyes, surrounding Kausalyā, then went slowly, steadfast in their vows.

Words: ardhasaptaśatās — six hundred and fifty; tās tu — those; pramadās — the women; tāmralocanāḥ — copper-red-eyed; kausalyāṃ — Kausalyā; parivāryātha — having surrounded, then; śanair — slowly; jagmur — went; dhṛtavratāḥ — steadfast in their vows

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.