Chapter 17 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 17

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 17.6

अलमद्य हि भूक्तेन परमार्थैरलं च नः। यदि पश्याम निर्यान्तं रामं राज्य प्रतिष्ठितम्॥ ततो हि नः प्रियतरं नान्यत् किंचिद् भविष्यति। यथाभिषेको रामस्य राज्येनामिततेजसः॥

alamadya hi bhūktena paramārthairalaṃ ca naḥ| yadi paśyāma niryāntaṃ rāmaṃ rājya pratiṣṭhitam|| tato hi naḥ priyataraṃ nānyat kiṃcid bhaviṣyati| yathābhiṣeko rāmasya rājyenāmitatejasaḥ||

English Meaning

Seek not we earthly comforts or the highest things (in the life to come), if we can only see. Rāma installed in the kingdom issuing out from his father's abode. There is nothing more pleasant to us than the installation of the highly energetic Rāma on the throne.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)