Chapter 7 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 7

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 7.11

नियुज्यमानाश्च गजाः सुहस्ताः सकेसराश्चोत्पलपत्रहस्ताः। बभूव देवी च कृतासुहस्ता लक्ष्मीस्तथा पद्मिनि पद्महस्ता॥

niyujyamānāśca gajāḥ suhastāḥ sakesarāścotpalapatrahastāḥ| babhūva devī ca kṛtāsuhastā lakṣmīstathā padmini padmahastā||

English Meaning

There were elephants possessed of graceful trunks, bearing filaments; and with their trunks bearing lotus leaves, engaged in showering water on Lakshmi); as well as the goddess, made with fair arms, seated on a pool with a lotus in her hand.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)