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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.17
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 91: Rāma restrains Lakṣmaṇa. He rejects suspicion of Bharata and shames his brother’s anger, Bharata spreads the camp around the mountain to avoid crowding the hermitage
In the sequence: Lakṣmaṇa climbs down and stands beside him → meanwhile Bharata distributes his camp around the mountain to avoid crowding the hermitage.
2.91.17
sā citrakūṭe bharatena senā dharmaṃ puraskṛtya vidhūya darpam
prasādanārthaṃ raghunandanasya virocate nītimatā praṇītā
That army, led onto Citrakūṭa by Bharata — who, putting dharma foremost and casting off all pride, sought to conciliate the delight of the Raghus — shone resplendent, marshalled by that master of statecraft.
Words: sā — that; citrakūṭe — on Citrakūṭa; bharatena — by Bharata; senā — the army; dharmaṃ — dharma; puraskṛtya — having put foremost; vidhūya — having shaken off, cast away; darpam — pride, arrogance; prasādanārthaṃ — for the purpose of conciliating; raghunandanasya — of the delight of the Raghus (Rāma); virocate — shines resplendent; nītimatā — by (that) master of statecraft; praṇītā — led, marshalled
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.