Dasaratha is our superior, of meritorious acts, aged our king, a departed spirit, and our father, it is on account of this that I do not censure our father who is a deity to us.
गुरुः क्रियावान् वृद्धश्च राजा प्रेतः पितेति च। तातं न परिगर्हेऽहं दैवतं चेति संसदि॥