Chapter 13 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 13

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 13.9

तथा पौरजनस्यापि कर्तव्याश्च सुविस्तराः। आगतानां सुदूराच्च पार्थिवानां पृथक् पृथक् ॥ वाजिवारणशालाश्च तथा शय्यागृहाणि च। भटानां महदावासा वैदेशिकनिवासिनाम्॥

tathā paurajanasyāpi kartavyāśca suvistarāḥ| āgatānāṃ sudūrācca pārthivānāṃ pṛthak pṛthak || vājivāraṇaśālāśca tathā śayyāgṛhāṇi ca| bhaṭānāṃ mahadāvāsā vaideśikanivāsinām||

English Meaning

You should provide spacious apartments for the citizens and the dwellers, of provinces, and separate quarters for the princes, coming from foreign parts. And stables and sleeping apartments be raised for warriors coming from foreign countries.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)