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)