Chapter 9 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 9

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 9.39

अत्र तेऽहं प्रमोक्ष्यामि मालां कुब्जे हिरण्मयीम्॥ अभिषिक्ते च भरते राघवे च वनं गते। जात्येन च सुवर्णेन सुनिष्टप्तेन सुन्दरि॥ लब्धार्था च प्रतीता च लेपयिष्यामि ते स्थगु।

atra te'haṃ pramokṣyāmi mālāṃ kubje hiraṇmayīm|| abhiṣikte ca bharate rāghave ca vanaṃ gate| jātyena ca suvarṇena suniṣṭaptena sundari|| labdhārthā ca pratītā ca lepayiṣyāmi te sthagu|

English Meaning

When Bharata has been installed and Rāma gone to the woods, I will, O hump-backed one, furnish your hump with a garland made, O beautiful one, of well melted gold. And when I shall have attained my object and be happy, I will smear your hump with sandal paste.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)