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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.85.36

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 85: Bharadvāja’s divine feast. Invoked devatās provide the army with food, drink and comforts, Bharata honours Rāma’s throne and sits as a minister

In the sequence: seeing the royal throne, he honors it and bows toward it for Rāma's sake, takes a whisk-fan, and sits on a minister's seat → the others take their seats in due order.

2.85.36

āsanaṃ pūjayām āsa rāmāyābhipraṇamya ca
vālavyajanam ādāya nyaṣīdat sacivāsane

He honoured the throne and bowed toward it for Rāma's sake, and taking up a whisk-fan he sat down on a minister's seat.

Words: āsanaṃ — the throne; pūjayām āsa — honoured, worshipped; rāmāyābhipraṇamya ca — and having bowed toward it for Rāma; vālavyajanam — a whisk (yak-tail) fan; ādāya — having taken up; nyaṣīdat — sat down; sacivāsane — on the minister's seat

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.