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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.13.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 13: Jaṭāyu’s offer. Daśaratha’s vulture friend recounts the ancestry of Devas, animals and humankind, identifies his own lineage and offers to guard Sītā

In the sequence: he recounts that Dakṣa had sixty daughters, eight of whom married Kaśyapa: Aditi, Diti, Danu, Kālakā, Tāmrā, Krodhavaśā, Manu, and Analā.

3.13.10

prajāpates tu dakṣasya babhūvur iti naḥ śrutam
ṣaṣṭir duhitaro rāma yaśasvinyo mahāyaśaḥ

Now to Dakṣa, lord of creatures, there were born — thus we have heard — sixty daughters, illustrious ones, O Rāma of great renown.

Words: prajāpates — of the lord of creatures; tu — now, but; dakṣasya — of Dakṣa; babhūvur — were born, came to be; iti — thus; naḥ — by us; śrutam — heard; ṣaṣṭir — sixty; duhitaro — daughters; rāma — O Rāma; yaśasvinyo — the illustrious ones; mahāyaśaḥ — O one of great renown

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.