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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.73.4

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 73: Bharata’s plan to restore Rāma. He refuses the prepared abhiṣeka, orders its materials taken to the forest and commissions a road for the expedition

In the sequence: On the fourteenth morning, the officials ask Bharata to accept the prepared abhiṣeka and protect the leaderless Kingdom

2.73.4

ābhiṣecanikaṃ sarvam idam ādāya rāghava
pratīkṣate tvāṃ svajanaḥ śreṇayaś ca nṛpātmaja

Taking up all these consecration materials, O Rāghava, your own people and the guilds await you, O prince.

Words: ābhiṣecanikaṃ — the consecration materials; sarvam — all; idam — this; ādāya — having taken up; rāghava — O Rāghava; pratīkṣate — awaits; tvāṃ — you; svajanaḥ — your own people; śreṇayaś ca — and the guilds; nṛpātmaja — O prince

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.