Sumati

Role: queen · First appears: Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar

Life events

Bhrigu granted Sagar's queens a choice between bearing one heir or sixty thousand sons.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar · 📍 Himálaya)
- With: Sagar Keśini Bhrigu
- “And, when a hundred years had fled, Thus the most truthful Bhrigu said: ‘From thee, O Sagar, blameless King, A mighty host of sons shall spring, And thou shalt win a glorious name Which none, O Chief, but thou shall claim. One of thy queens a son shall bear, Maintainer of thy race and heir; And of the other there shall be Sons sixty thousand born to thee.’”
Keśini chose to bear one heir, while Sumati chose to bear sixty thousand sons.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar)
- With: Keśini
- “Then Keśini The mother of one heir would be. Sumati, sister of the king Of all the birds that ply the wing, To that illustrious Bráhman sued That she might bear the multitude”
Sumati gave birth to a gourd that opened to reveal sixty thousand babes.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar)
- With: Sagar
- “Then Sumati, the younger, gave Birth to a gourd, O hero brave, Whose rind, when burst and cleft in two, Gave sixty thousand babes to view.”
Sumati became heir to Somadatta and governs Viśálá.(Book I, Canto 47 · Sumati)
- “And Sumati, his heir, the peer Of Gods above, now governs here.”

married with Sagar “Aríshṭanemi’s daughter fair, With whom no maiden might compare In beauty, though the earth is wide, Sumati, was his second bride.”
parent: Aríshṭanemi “Aríshṭanemi’s daughter fair, With whom no maiden might compare In beauty, though the earth is wide, Sumati, was his second bride.”

with Somadatta (Sumati is identified as Somadatta’s heir.) “And Sumati, his heir, the peer Of Gods above, now governs here.”
parent: Somadatta “And Sumati, his heir, the peer Of Gods above, now governs here.”

Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.