- like lotus-red eyes, lengthy arms, roseate lips, voice like drumbeat, and who took birth to delight the Ikshwaku dynasty and who is the greatly blessed epitome of Vishnu. [1-18-11]
Kaushalya glowed with the undiminished lustre of her son, just as Aditi with her son Indra, the foremost among the gods and the wielder of thunder. [1-18-12]
Queen Sumitra then gave birth to two sons who were the embodied epitomes of Vishnu, namely Lakshmana, and Shatrughna, who were valiant ones and experts in all kinds of weaponry. [1-18-14]
Bharata endowed with pure intellect was born in meena lagna when pushya nakshatra (star) was in the ascendant. Lakshmana and Shatrughna were born in karka lagna with the star aslesha . [1-18-15]