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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.13.26

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

3.13.26

mātaṅgyās tv atha mātaṅgā apatyaṃ manujarṣabha
diśāgajaṃ tu śvetākṣaṃ śvetā vyajanayat sutam

The offspring of Mātaṅgī were the elephants, O bull among men; and Śvetā brought forth for a son the white-eyed elephant of the quarter, guardian of a direction.

Words: mātaṅgyās — of Mātaṅgī; tv — and; atha — then; mātaṅgā — the elephants; apatyaṃ — offspring; manujarṣabha — O bull among men; diśāgajaṃ — the elephant of the quarter; tu — and; śvetākṣaṃ — white-eyed; śvetā — Śvetā; vyajanayat — brought forth; sutam — a son

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.