Chapter 66 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 66

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 66.6

तां रक्षां जगृहुस्तां च मुनिहस्तात्समाहिताः। अकुर्वश्च ततो रक्षा तयोविगतकल्मषाः॥ तथा तां क्रियमाणां च वृद्धाभिर्गोत्रनाम च।

tāṃ rakṣāṃ jagṛhustāṃ ca munihastātsamāhitāḥ| akurvaśca tato rakṣā tayovigatakalmaṣāḥ|| tathā tāṃ kriyamāṇāṃ ca vṛddhābhirgotranāma ca|

English Meaning

Thereupon reverentially taking from the hands of Vālmīki and Kuśa Lava, the means of protection, the elderly ladies engaged in guarding them.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)