Bharata, bowing down to the sandals, said, O hero, for, four and ten years shall I, wearing matted locks and bark, and subsisting upon fruits and roots, O scion of the Raghu race, expecting your arrival, remain outside the city, having, O subduer of foes, made over the task of government to your sandals.
स पादुके सम्प्रणम्य रामं वचनमब्रवीत्। चतुर्दश हि वर्षाणि जटाचीरधरो ह्यहम्॥ फलमूलाशनो वीर भवेयं रघुनन्दन। तवागमनमाकाङ्क्षन् वसन् वै नगराद् बहिः॥ तव पादुकयोय॑स्य राज्यतन्त्रं परंतप।