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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.14

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 32: Śūrpaṇakhā describes Sītā. She recounts Rāma’s victory, praises Sītā’s beauty and urges Rāvaṇa to kill the brothers and take her as his wife

In the sequence: turning to Sītā, she praises her as more beautiful than any woman she has seen and tells Rāvaṇa that they would be fitting partners

3.32.14

rāmasya tu viśālākṣī dharmapatnī yaśasvinī
sītā nāma varārohā vaidehī tanumadhyamā

And Rāma's wide-eyed, lawful, illustrious wife is named Sītā, the Vaidehī, fair-hipped and slender-waisted.

Words: rāmasya tu — and Rāma's; viśālākṣī — wide-eyed; dharmapatnī — lawful wife; yaśasvinī — illustrious; sītā nāma — named Sītā; varārohā — fair-hipped (of excellent form); vaidehī — the Vaidehī (princess of Videha); tanumadhyamā — slender-waisted

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.