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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.9.15

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 9: Mantharā’s plan for the boons. She recalls Kaikeyī’s rescue of Daśaratha and urges Bharata’s abhiṣeka and fourteen years of exile for Rāma

In the sequence: Mantharā recalls an earlier war in which Kaikeyī accompanied Daśaratha, carried him out of danger when he was wounded and unconscious, and protected him → in gratitude, he granted her two boons, which she kept for later

2.9.15

tau varau yāca bhartāraṃ bharatasyābhiṣecanam
pravrājanaṃ ca rāmasya tvaṃ varṣāṇi caturdaśa

Ask your husband for those two boons: the consecration of Bharata, and the banishment of Rāma for fourteen years.

Words: tau varau — those two boons; yāca — ask for; bhartāraṃ — your husband; bharatasyābhiṣecanam — the consecration of Bharata; pravrājanaṃ ca — and the banishment; rāmasya — of Rāma; tvaṃ — you; varṣāṇi caturdaśa — for fourteen years

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.