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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.73.9

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: he orders an army readied and the abhiṣeka materials brought along so that Rāma can be crowned in the forest and escorted home

2.73.9

yujyatāṃ mahatī senā caturaṅgamahābalā
ānayiṣyāmy ahaṃ jyeṣṭhaṃ bhrātaraṃ rāghavaṃ vanāt

Let a great army be equipped, mighty with its four divisions; I will bring back my eldest brother Rāghava from the forest.

Words: yujyatāṃ — let (it) be equipped, yoked; mahatī — great; senā — army; caturaṅgamahābalā — mighty with four divisions; ānayiṣyāmy — I will bring back; ahaṃ — I; jyeṣṭhaṃ — eldest; bhrātaraṃ — brother; rāghavaṃ — Rāghava; vanāt — from the forest

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.