तेषां तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा महर्षिः समुपागमत्। बालचन्द्रप्रतीकाशौ देवपुत्रौ महौजसौ॥ जगाम तत्र हृष्टात्मा ददर्श च कुमारको। भूतघ्नीं चाकरोत्ताभ्यां रक्षा रक्षोविनाशिनीम्॥
teṣāṃ tadvacanaṃ śrutvā maharṣiḥ samupāgamat| bālacandrapratīkāśau devaputrau mahaujasau|| jagāma tatra hṛṣṭātmā dadarśa ca kumārako| bhūtaghnīṃ cākarottābhyāṃ rakṣā rakṣovināśinīm||
English Meaning
Hearing those words the highly effulgent Vālmīki went there and attained to great on beholding those two highly effulgent sons, resembling the newly risen sun and the celestials. Thereupon he made arrangements against the oppression of ghosts and goblins.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)