सेयं मम सुता राजन् विश्वामित्रपुरस्सरै:। यदृच्छयागतैर्वीरैर्निर्जिता तव पुत्रकै:।
Meaning
'That very daughter of mine, O king, has now been won by your heroic son, who arrived here by chance with Vishwamitra at the fore.'
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| sā iyam mama sutā rājan | सा इयम् मम सुता राजन् | this same daughter of mine, O king | Nominative / Nominative / Genitive / Nominative / Vocative |
| vishvāmitra-purassaraiḥ | विस्ह्वामित्र-पुरस्सरैः | preceded by Vishvamitra | Instrumental plural |
| yadṛcchayā āgataiḥ vīraiḥ | यदृच्छया आगतैः वीरैः | by heroes who came by chance | Instrumental / Instrumental plural / Instrumental plural |
| nirjitā tava putrakaiḥ | निर्जिता तव पुत्रकैः | has been won by your sons | Nominative / Genitive / Instrumental plural |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source flags a grammatical nuance in Janaka's proposal: the phrase describing 'your valorous sons' uses a plural form, viiraiH putrakaiH, which might suggest both Rama and Lakshmana jointly won Sita. It explains this plural as an honorific 'royal we' applied to Rama alone, not a literal claim about Lakshmana, and cites an alternate manuscript reading of the same verse that uses the singular explicitly: seyam mama sutaa raajan vishvaamitrasya shaasanaat | puriim imaam samaagatya tava putreNa nirjitaa.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.68.9 · Bāla Kāṇḍa