Chapter 9 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 9

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 9.15

तुष्टेन तेन दत्तौ ते द्वौ वरौ शुभदर्शने। स त्वयोक्तः पतिर्देवि यदिच्छेयं तदा वरम्॥ गृह्णीयां तु तदा भर्तस्तथेत्युक्तं महात्मना । अनभिज्ञा ह्यहं देवि त्वयैव कथितं पुरा॥ कथैषा तव तु स्नेहान्मनसा धार्यते मया। रामाभिषेकसम्भारान्निगृह्य विनिवर्तय॥

tuṣṭena tena dattau te dvau varau śubhadarśane| sa tvayoktaḥ patirdevi yadiccheyaṃ tadā varam|| gṛhṇīyāṃ tu tadā bhartastathetyuktaṃ mahātmanā | anabhijñā hyahaṃ devi tvayaiva kathitaṃ purā|| kathaiṣā tava tu snehānmanasā dhāryate mayā| rāmābhiṣekasambhārānnigṛhya vinivartaya||

English Meaning

Thereupon gratified, he, O, you of gracious presence, granted you two boons. Whereupon you did say, 'I shall receive from my lord the boon whenever I shall wish. Thereupon that high-souled one said., 'So be it? I did not know anything about this, O respected one; and it was you who did formerly communicate this (to me.) And it is because I bear affection to you that I have not forgotten it. Now do you forcibly make the monarch desist from installing Rāma.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)