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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.9.32

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 9: Mantharā’s plan for the boons. She recalls Kaikeyī’s rescue of Daśaratha and urges Bharata’s abhiṣeka and fourteen years of exile for Rāma

In the sequence: Kaikeyī praises Mantharā's cleverness and promises her lavish rewards

2.9.32

jaghanaṃ tava nirghuṣṭaṃ raśanādāmaśobhitam
jaṅghe bhṛśam upanyaste pādau cāpy āyatāv ubhau

Your hips, sounding with a girdle-cord and graced by it, your two shanks firmly set, and both your feet long and shapely —

Words: jaghanaṃ tava — your hips; nirghuṣṭaṃ — jingling, resounding; raśanādāmaśobhitam — adorned with a girdle-cord; jaṅghe — the two shanks; bhṛśam upanyaste — firmly set; pādau cāpy — and both feet; āyatāv ubhau — both long, extended

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.