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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.32
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 15: Rāma’s winter bath in the Godāvarī. Lakṣmaṇa describes cold water and imagines Bharata’s Sarayū bath, Rāma bathes with Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa and offers water
In the sequence: he says Bharata disproves the saying that a son takes after his mother, then wonders how Kaikeyī could be so cruel with Daśaratha as her husband and Bharata as her son
3.15.32
na pitryam anuvarntante mātṛkaṃ dvipadā iti
khyāto lokapravādo 'yaṃ bharatenānyathākṛtaḥ
'Bipeds do not follow the father's nature, but the mother's' — this well-known popular saying has been proved otherwise by Bharata.
Words: na — not; pitryam — the paternal (nature); anuvarntante — they follow after; mātṛkaṃ — the maternal (nature); dvipadā — bipeds, two-footed beings; iti — thus (goes the saying); khyāto — well-known, famous; lokapravādo — popular saying, common report; 'yaṃ — this; bharatenānyathākṛtaḥ — made otherwise by Bharata
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.