Chapter 60 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 60

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 60.9

रामलक्ष्मणयोर्मध्ये न्यस्याम जनकात्मजाम्। किं व्यलीकैस्तु तान् सर्वान् वानरान् वानरर्षभान्॥ वयमेव हि गत्वा तान् हत्वा राक्षसपुङ्गवान्। राघवं द्रष्टुमर्हामः सुग्रीवं सहलक्ष्मणम्॥

rāmalakṣmaṇayormadhye nyasyāma janakātmajām| kiṃ vyalīkaistu tān sarvān vānarān vānararṣabhān|| vayameva hi gatvā tān hatvā rākṣasapuṅgavān| rāghavaṃ draṣṭumarhāmaḥ sugrīvaṃ sahalakṣmaṇam||

English Meaning

And we shall place Janaka's daughter between Rāma and Lakşmana. what is the use of putting the other residents of Kiskindha into trouble? It therefore behove us alone to go to Lankā and after slaying the best of the Rākşasas, to see Sugriva, Rāma and Laksmana."

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)