On Rāma having stopped after speaking these pregnant words, the virtuous Bharata addressed the righteous Rāma attached to him subjects in an excellent speech on the banks of the Mandākinī, saying, “O vanquisher of foes, who is there is this world like to you?"
एवमुक्त्वा तु विरते रामे वचनमर्थवत्। ततो मन्दाकिनीतीरे रामं प्रकृतिवत्सलम्॥ उवाच भरतश्चित्रं धार्मिको धार्मिकं वचः। को हि स्यादीदृशो लोके यादृशस्त्वमरिंदम॥