Chapter 55 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 55

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 55.2

तेषां स्वस्त्ययनं चैव महर्षिः स चकार ह। प्रस्थितान् प्रेक्ष्य तांश्चैव पिता पुत्रानिवौरसान् ॥

teṣāṃ svastyayanaṃ caiva maharṣiḥ sa cakāra ha| prasthitān prekṣya tāṃścaiva pitā putrānivaurasān ||

English Meaning

Seeing them about to set forth, that Maharși performed a propitiatory ceremony for them, even as a father does on behalf of the sons begot from his own loins.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)