कुशनाभस्तु राजर्षि: कन्याशतमनुत्तमम्। जनयामास धर्मात्मा घृताच्यां रघुनन्दन।।1.32.11।।
Meaning
The royal sage Kushanabha, righteous of soul, begot a hundred peerless daughters through the celestial maiden Ghritachi, delight of Raghu.
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| kuśanābhaḥ tu rāja-ṛṣiḥ | कुशनाभः तु राज-ऋषिः | but Kushanabha, the royal sage | Nominative singular |
| kanyā-śatam anuttamam | कन्या-शतम् अनुत्तमम् | an unsurpassed hundred daughters | Accusative singular |
| janayāmāsa dharma-ātmā | जनयामास धर्म-आत्मा | the righteous-souled one begot | Verb (periphrastic perfect) / Nominative |
| ghṛtācyām raghu-nandana | घृताच्याम् रघु-नन्दन | upon Ghritachi, O delight of the Raghus | Locative / Vocative |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source notes that children begotten through a celestial maiden are considered of superior nature for founding a further divine generation, drawing the parallel to Shakuntala, who through a similar circumstance bore Bharata, the earliest dynastic king of the Bharata lineage.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.32.11 · Bāla Kāṇḍa