Sumati
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Sumatī · sister of Suparṇa
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Second wife of Sagara, daughter of Ariṣṭanemi, mother of the sixty thousand sons.
and from the bursting of that gourd emerged sixty thousand sons.
Then Sumatī, sister of Suparṇa, chose the sixty thousand sons, mighty in enterprise and famed.
The second wife of Sagara was the daughter of Ariṣṭanemi, matchless in beauty on earth, known by the name Sumatī.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Disciple of Narada credited with further abridging the sacred laws.
’ He accordingly abridged it to 12,000 verses, and his disciple, Sumati, further abridged it to 4,000.