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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.4.25

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 4: Omens hasten the abhiṣeka. Daśaratha fixes the ceremony for the next day while Bharata is away, Rāma & Sītā must fast and sleep on darbha

In the sequence: he tells Rāma and Sītā to upavāsa, sleep on darbha grass, and have trusted friends guard them that night → he also wants to act while Bharata is away: although he trusts Bharata's character, he says that people's minds can change.

2.4.25

viproṣitaś ca bharato yāvad eva purād itaḥ
tāvad evābhiṣekas te prāptakālo mato mama

And just while Bharata is away, absent from this city, so long — that is, this very time — is, in my view, the fitting time for your consecration.

Words: viproṣitaś — away, absent; ca — and; bharato — Bharata; yāvad eva — just so long as; purād — from the city; itaḥ — from here; tāvad evābhiṣekas — just so long, the consecration; te — your; prāptakālo — the time being come, opportune; mato — held, considered; mama — my, by me

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.