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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.28.12

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 28: Lakṣmaṇa joins the exile. He promises service to Rāma & Sītā and retrieves the paired bows, armour, quivers and swords from their teacher

In the sequence: Rāma agrees and sends him to take leave of their friends and fetch the weapons kept at their teacher's house: two divine bows given by Varuṇa at Janaka's sacrifice, two suits of armor, two inexhaustible quivers, and two swords

2.28.12

ye ca rājño dadau divye mahātmā varuṇaḥ svayam
janakasya mahāyajñe dhanuṣī raudradarśane

And take too the two divine bows, terrible to behold, which the great-souled Varuṇa himself gave to the king at Janaka's great sacrifice,

Words: ye ca — and which; rājño — to the king; dadau — gave; divye — the two divine; mahātmā — the great-souled; varuṇaḥ — Varuṇa; svayam — himself; janakasya — of Janaka; mahāyajñe — at the great sacrifice; dhanuṣī — the two bows; raudradarśane — terrible to behold

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.