Ramayana
तदा दैवासुरे युद्धे तस्य कालोऽय मागतः । नव पञ्च च वर्षाणि दण्डकारण्यमाश्रितः ॥ २-११-२६
- then in the war between gods and asuras and the time has come to grant it. Consigned to the Dandaka forest for fourteen (nine and five) years - ॥ 2-11-26॥
english translation
tadA daivAsure yuddhe tasya kAlo'ya mAgataH । nava paJca ca varSANi daNDakAraNyamAzritaH ॥ 2-11-26
hk transliteration by Sanscript