Dear Csaba,
I am sorry to have been so slow in responding to your query. Here is the
information available within Mary's Narrative elements folder within our
joint ORA material
<https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8df9647a-8002-45ff-b37e-7effb669768b
<https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8df9647a-8002-45ff-b37e-7effb669768b>
> (apologies for the oddity of fornatting arising from a cut and paste
operation:
Sumitrā
/Karaṇī, Karaṇīsuta, //Kosakaliyaniy, Kramuda, Māgadhī, Samantra//,
Samut, Samouththevi, Sowen,//Sramut, Sumata, Sumathra, Sumida, Sumitta,
//Suprabhā, Thumitra/
daughter of king of Magadha: /PdP /(/Uttarakh./) 6,242.37
Kālidāsa, /Raghuvaṃśa/: Renou 1928: 9.22; Haksar 2016: 9.17
/ Ānanda Rm/: Nagar 2006: 1,1.71
not daughter of king of Magadha:
Abhinanda, /Rāmacarita/: Raghavan 1985: 60-61; 2017: 84-85
daughter of Sumitra, virtuous king of island of Siṃhala, who offers her
to Daśaratha
Assamese, Mādhavadeva: Nagar 2000: I, 18
Hopefully this is some help with your query.
Best wishes
John
Professor J.L. Brockington
113 Rutten Lane
Yarnton
Kidlington 0X5 1LT
tel: 01865 849438
On 18/02/2024 13:41, Csaba Dezso via INDOLOGY wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
It seems to be common knowledge when one does a search on the internet that
Sumitrā, the wife of Daśaratha, was the daugther of the king of Kāśī / Magadha.
However, I cannot find this information in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa (of course I
might well have overlooked something). Do you perhaps know a textual source for
this?
Ānandarāmāyaṇa Sārakāṇḍa 1:70 says this, but perhaps there is an earlier source?
And of course there is Raghuvaṃśa 9:17: magadhakosalakekayaśāsināṃ duhitaro,
where, curiously, Vallabhadeva reads malaya- instead of magadha-.
Many thanks for your help,
Csaba
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