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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.28.14

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

2.28.14

satkṛtya nihitaṃ sarvam etad ācāryasadmani
sa tvam āyudham ādāya kṣipram āvraja lakṣmaṇa

All this, reverently deposited, rests in the house of our preceptor; so you, taking up the weapons, come back quickly, Lakṣmaṇa.”

Words: satkṛtya — having honoured, reverently; nihitaṃ — deposited, laid up; sarvam etad — all this; ācāryasadmani — in the preceptor's house; sa tvam — you; āyudham — the weapons; ādāya — having taken; kṣipram — quickly; āvraja — come back; lakṣmaṇa — O Lakṣmaṇa

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.