Chapter 9 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 9

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 9.26

रामप्रव्रजनं दूरं नव वर्षाणि पञ्च च। भरतः क्रियतां राजा पृथिव्यां पार्थिवर्षभ॥

rāmapravrajanaṃ dūraṃ nava varṣāṇi pañca ca| bharataḥ kriyatāṃ rājā pṛthivyāṃ pārthivarṣabha||

English Meaning

Send Rāma to the forest for nine and five years, and let Bharata, becoming on earth the foremost of monarchs, carry on the Government.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)