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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.16
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
3.32.16
yasya sītā bhaved bhāryā yaṃ ca hṛṣṭā pariṣvajet
atijīvet sa sarveṣu lokeṣv api puraṃdarāt
He whose wife Sītā might be, and whom, delighted, she might embrace, would outlive even Indra, sacker of cities, in all the worlds.
Words: yasya — whose; sītā — Sītā; bhaved — might be; bhāryā — wife; yaṃ ca — and whom; hṛṣṭā — delighted, joyful; pariṣvajet — might embrace; atijīvet — would outlive, live beyond; sa — he; sarveṣu lokeṣv api — even in all the worlds; puraṃdarāt — than Puraṃdara (Indra)
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.