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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.28.7
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: Lakṣmaṇa replies that Bharata will honor both women and that Kausalyā has a thousand villages for her support—enough, he says, to maintain a thousand men like himself
2.28.7
kausalyā bibhṛyād āryā sahasram api madvidhān
yasyāḥ sahasraṃ grāmāṇāṃ saṃprāptam upajīvanam
The noble Kausalyā could support even a thousand men such as me, she to whom a thousand villages have come as her means of livelihood.
Words: kausalyā — Kausalyā; bibhṛyād — could support; āryā — the noble one; sahasram api — even a thousand; madvidhān — men such as me; yasyāḥ — of whom, to whom; sahasraṃ — a thousand; grāmāṇāṃ — of villages; saṃprāptam — obtained, come; upajīvanam — means of livelihood
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.