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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.64.16

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 64: Bharata leaves Kekaya. The messengers conceal the crisis, his grandfather and uncle provide gifts and an escort, Bharata departs with Śatrughna

In the sequence: his grandfather blesses him and sends greetings to the family and priests

2.64.16

purohitaṃ ca kuśalaṃ ye cānye dvijasattamāḥ
tau ca tāta maheṣvāsau bhrātaru rāmalakṣmaṇau

and good wishes to the house-priest and the other most excellent brahmins, and to those two, my child, the great archers, your brothers Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.”

Words: purohitaṃ — the house-priest; ca — and; kuśalaṃ — good wishes, welfare; ye — who; cānye — and other; dvijasattamāḥ — the best of brahmins; tau — those two; ca — and; tāta — my child; maheṣvāsau — the two great archers; bhrātaru — the two brothers; rāmalakṣmaṇau — Rāma and 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.