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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.15
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
3.32.15
naiva devī na gandharvā na yakṣī na ca kiṃnarī
tathārūpā mayā nārī dṛṣṭapūrvā mahītale
No goddess, no gandharva woman, no yakṣī, no kinnarī—no woman of such beauty have I ever before seen upon the earth.
Words: naiva — not even; devī — a goddess; na gandharvā — nor a gandharva woman; na yakṣī — nor a yakṣī; na ca kiṃnarī — nor a kinnarī; tathārūpā — of such beauty; mayā — by me; nārī — woman; dṛṣṭapūrvā — seen before; mahītale — on the earth
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.