Chapter 5 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 5

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 5.1

सुकेशं धार्मिकं दृष्ट्वा वरलब्धं च राक्षसम्। ग्रामणी म गन्धर्वो विश्वावसुसमप्रभः॥ तस्य देववती नाम द्वितीया श्रीरिवात्मजा। त्रिषु लोकेषु विख्याता रूपयौवनशालिनी॥ तां सुकेशाय धर्मात्मा ददौ रक्षः श्रियं यथा।

sukeśaṃ dhārmikaṃ dṛṣṭvā varalabdhaṃ ca rākṣasam| grāmaṇī ma gandharvo viśvāvasusamaprabhaḥ|| tasya devavatī nāma dvitīyā śrīrivātmajā| triṣu lokeṣu vikhyātā rūpayauvanaśālinī|| tāṃ sukeśāya dharmātmā dadau rakṣaḥ śriyaṃ yathā|

English Meaning

Cveing Sukeśa righteous and furnished with the boon, a virtuous Gandharva, named Grāmani, of the effulgence of fire, who had a daughter, called Devavati, like to a second Sri herself, famed over the three worlds, and endowed with beauty and youth, bestowed her on Sukeśa as if he had bestowed the goddess of fortune of the Rākşasa.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)