Chapter 29 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 29

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 29.12

कन्यया च पितुर्गेहे वनवासः श्रुतो मया। भिक्षिण्याः शमवृत्ताया मम मातुरिहाग्रतः॥

kanyayā ca piturgehe vanavāsaḥ śruto mayā| bhikṣiṇyāḥ śamavṛttāyā mama māturihāgrataḥ||

English Meaning

I heard, when I was a girl, that an ascetic woman of well-disciplined character, came to my mother and apprised her of my future abode in the forest.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)