śrī lakṣmaṇa kavacam (ānanda rāmāyaṇa)

An armour for Lakshmana from the Ananda Ramayana, spoken by Agastya, and the companion of the Bharata armour beside it in this corpus. Its meditation, like that one's, shows a man in attendance rather than a hero: Sumitra's son, dark, his eyes on the two feet of Raghu's lord, holding with his own hand a many-coloured parasol over Rama's head, and carrying Rama's great bow and quiver — and, in the last line, always intent on the word of Janaka's daughter, which is a striking thing to put in a meditation on him. The viniyoga makes the relationships into the working parts of the mantra: Shesha for the seed, since he is held to be that serpent; Sumitra's son for the power, Rama's younger brother for the pin, Rama's servant for the weapon.