Chapter 34 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 34

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 34.35

अहं निदेशं भवतो यथोक्तमनुपालयन् ॥ चतुर्दश समा वत्स्ये वने वनचरैः सह। मा विमर्शो वसुमती भरताय प्रदीयताम्॥

ahaṃ nideśaṃ bhavato yathoktamanupālayan || caturdaśa samā vatsye vane vanacaraiḥ saha| mā vimarśo vasumatī bharatāya pradīyatām||

English Meaning

Obeying the mandate that you have issued, I will dwell in the forest for fourteen years in the company of the rangers of the woods. Do you without feeling any compunction confer the earth on Bharata.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)