Chapter 1 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 1

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 1.5

सर्व एव तु तस्येष्टाश्चत्वारः पुरुषर्षभाः। स्वशरीराद् विनिर्वृत्ताश्चत्वार इव बाहवः॥

sarva eva tu tasyeṣṭāścatvāraḥ puruṣarṣabhāḥ| svaśarīrād vinirvṛttāścatvāra iva bāhavaḥ||

English Meaning

All those four chiefs of men were dear to him even as four hands issuing from his own body.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)