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 > (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

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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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