Although thus besought and propitiated by Bharata with bent head, that lord of the earth, Rāma, possessed of strength, established in the words of his father, did not decide for going.
तथाभिरामो भरतेन ताम्यता प्रसाद्यमानः शिरसा महीपतिः। न चैव चक्रे गमनाय सत्त्ववान् मतिं पितुस्तद् वचने प्रतिष्ठितः॥