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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.4.30

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: Rāma goes to Kausalyā's apartments, where she is praying to Viṣṇu; Sumitrā, Lakṣmaṇa, and Sītā are also present

2.4.30

tatra tāṃ pravaṇām eva mātaraṃ kṣaumavāsinīm
vāgyatāṃ devatāgāre dadarśa yācatīṃ śriyam

There he saw his mother, clad in silk, wholly absorbed (in devotion), silent, in the shrine, praying for (his) prosperity.

Words: tatra — there; tāṃ — her; pravaṇām — absorbed, intent, devout; eva — indeed; mātaraṃ — the mother; kṣaumavāsinīm — clad in silk; vāgyatāṃ — of restrained speech, silent; devatāgāre — in the shrine, house of the deity; dadarśa — saw; yācatīṃ — praying for, entreating; śriyam — prosperity, fortune

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.