Chapter 4 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 4

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 4.27

तस्मिन् कालेऽपि कौसल्या तस्थावामीलितेक्षणा। सुमित्रयान्वास्यमाना सीतया लक्ष्मणेन च॥ श्रुत्वा पुष्ये च पुत्रस्य यौवराज्येऽभिषेचनम्। प्राणायामेन पुरुषं ध्यायमाना जनार्दनम्॥

tasmin kāle'pi kausalyā tasthāvāmīlitekṣaṇā| sumitrayānvāsyamānā sītayā lakṣmaṇena ca|| śrutvā puṣye ca putrasya yauvarājye'bhiṣecanam| prāṇāyāmena puruṣaṃ dhyāyamānā janārdanam||

English Meaning

Hearing of the installation of his son in the office of heir-apparent during the influence of the Puşya at that time, tended by Sumitrā and Sita and Laksmana, there stood Kausalya, meditating the (triune) person Janārdana, through suspension of breath.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)