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)