And then when the six seasons had rolled away after the completion of the sacrifice, in the twelfth month, on the ninth lunar day, under the influence of the Punarvasu asterism presided by Aditi devatā, when the Sun, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus were at Arius, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer, And Pisces, and when Jupiter had arisen with the Moon at Cancer, Kausalyā gave birth to that lord of the universe, bowed to by all the worlds, Rāma, the descendant of Iksvaku, furnished with excellent marks, the one half of Vişnu,-exceedingly righteous, with rosy eyes, and mighty arms, and crimson nether lip, and endowed with a voice like the sound of a kettledrum. Then on having given birth to that son of immeasurable prowess, Kausalyā looked resplendent, like Aditi on having brought forth that foremost of celestials the wielder of the thunder-bolt.
ततो यज्ञे समाप्ते तु ऋतूनां षट् समत्ययुः। ततश्च द्वादशे मासे चैत्रे नावमिके तिथौ॥ नक्षत्रेऽदितिदैवत्ये स्वोच्चसंस्थेषु पञ्चसु। ग्रहेषु कर्कटे लग्ने वाक्पताविन्दुना सह॥ प्रोद्यमाने जगन्नाथं सर्वलोकनमस्कृतम्। कौसल्याजनयद् रामं दिव्यलक्षणसंयुतम्॥ विष्णोरर्धं महाभागं पुत्रमैक्ष्वाकुनन्दनम्। लोहिताक्षं महाबाहुं रक्तोष्ठं दुन्दुभिस्वनम् ॥ कौसल्या शुशुभे तेन पुत्रेणामिततेजसा। यथा वरेण देवानामदितिर्वज्रपाणिना॥