Chapter 64 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 64

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 64.11

रामं प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य शिरसाभिप्रणम्य च। लक्ष्मणं भरतं चैव प्रणिपत्य कृताञ्जलिः॥ पुरोहितं वसिष्ठं च शत्रुघ्नः पयतात्मवान्। रामेण चाभ्यनुज्ञातः शत्रुघ्नः शत्रुतापनः। प्रदक्षिणमथो कृत्वा निर्जगाम महाबलः॥

rāmaṃ pradakṣiṇīkṛtya śirasābhipraṇamya ca| lakṣmaṇaṃ bharataṃ caiva praṇipatya kṛtāñjaliḥ|| purohitaṃ vasiṣṭhaṃ ca śatrughnaḥ payatātmavān| rāmeṇa cābhyanujñātaḥ śatrughnaḥ śatrutāpanaḥ| pradakṣiṇamatho kṛtvā nirjagāma mahābalaḥ||

English Meaning

Thereupon having circumambulated with folded hands Rāma, Lakşmaņa and Bharata he reverentially saluted the feet of the priests. And then with Rāma's permission and having gone round him the highly powerful Śatrughna issued out.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)