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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.28.13

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

2.28.13

abhedyakavace divye tūṇī cākṣayasāyakau
ādityavimalau cobhau khaḍgau hemapariṣkṛtau

and the two divine impenetrable coats of mail, and two quivers with inexhaustible arrows, and both swords bright as the sun and adorned with gold.

Words: abhedyakavace — the two impenetrable coats of mail; divye — the two divine; tūṇī — the two quivers; cākṣayasāyakau — and with inexhaustible arrows; ādityavimalau — the two bright as the sun; cobhau — and both; khaḍgau — the two swords; hemapariṣkṛtau — adorned with gold

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.