Chapter 9 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 9

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 9.16

तौ च याचस्व भर्तारं भरतस्याभिषेचनम्। प्रव्राजनं च रामस्य वर्षाणि च चतुर्दश ॥

tau ca yācasva bhartāraṃ bharatasyābhiṣecanam| pravrājanaṃ ca rāmasya varṣāṇi ca caturdaśa ||

English Meaning

And ask your husband for these two boons, the installation of Bharata, and the exile of Rāma into the woods for fourteen years.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)