śrī śatrughna kavacam (ānanda rāmāyaṇa)

The last of the four Ananda Ramayana armours in this corpus, Agastya's, matching those for Bharata and Lakshmana and Sita. Its meditation puts Shatrughna where the Ramayana keeps him — carrying a bow and a great quiver, standing at Rama's left out of modesty, and holding with his own hand a bright palm-leaf fan and fanning him in the assembly — so that all three brothers are shown in attendance rather than in action. The viniyoga is where this one is distinctive: Sudarshana, the discus, is given as the seed, which is the tradition that makes him a portion of that weapon; Bharata's younger brother is the pin; Bharata's minister is the weapon; and the last epithet names him as born of a portion of Lakshmana.