Now do you, O foremost of men, listen to my words. This youthful brother of yours, king Kusadhvaja, O you versed in morality, this pious-souled one, O king, has, O prime of men, a couple of daughters, unparalleled on earth in beauty, whom we would ask for, to become wives to the prince Bharata and the intelligent Satrughna; as we, O king, ask for your own daughters in the interests of those high-souled ones (Rama and Laksmana).4-6
वक्तव्यं च नरश्रेष्ठ श्रूयतां वचनं मम। भ्राता यवीयान् धर्मज्ञ एष राजा कुशध्वजः॥ अस्य धर्मात्मनो राजन् रूपेणाप्रतिमं भुवि। सुताद्वयं नरश्रेष्ठ पत्न्यर्थं वरयामहे ॥ भरतस्य कुमारस्य शत्रुघ्नस्य च धीमतः। वरये ते सुते राजंस्तयोरर्थे महात्मनोः॥