Chapter 53 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 53

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 53.33

स लक्ष्मणस्योत्तमपुष्कलं वचो निशम्य चैवं वनवासमादरात्। समाः समस्ता विदधे परंतपः प्रपद्य धर्म सुचिराय राघवः॥

sa lakṣmaṇasyottamapuṣkalaṃ vaco niśamya caivaṃ vanavāsamādarāt| samāḥ samastā vidadhe paraṃtapaḥ prapadya dharma sucirāya rāghavaḥ||

English Meaning

Hearing Lakşmaņa's excellent and appropriate words with which he gladly assumed a life in the woods, that subduer of foes, Rāghava, in the name of righteousness, at once fully granted him the permission to dwell with him for the entire fourteen years.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)