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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.13.23
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: Krodhavaśā's daughters become the ancestors of deer, bears, lions, monkeys, tigers, elephants, cattle, horses, and serpents → among these lines, Bhadramadā's daughter Irāvatī bears Airāvata, while Surabhī's daughters Rohiṇī and Gandharvī bear cattle and horses respectively
3.13.23
apatyaṃ tu mṛgāḥ sarve mṛgyā naravarottama
ṛṣkāś ca mṛgamandāyāḥ sṛmarāś camarās tathā
The offspring of Mṛgī were all the deer, O best of the best of men, and of Mṛgamandā the bears, and the sṛmaras and the camara-deer likewise.
Words: apatyaṃ — offspring; tu — and; mṛgāḥ — the deer; sarve — all; mṛgyā — of Mṛgī; naravarottama — O best of the best of men; ṛṣkāś — the bears; ca — and; mṛgamandāyāḥ — of Mṛgamandā; sṛmarāś — the sṛmaras; camarās — the camara-deer; tathā — likewise
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.