Having said this in grief, Bharata in company with the charioteer entered Ayodhyā and immediately went to the residence of his father, bereft of that foremost of men, like a cavern bereft of its lion.
इति ब्रुवन् सारथिना दुःखितो भरतस्तदा॥ अयोध्यां सम्प्रविश्यैव विवेश वसतिं पितुः। तेन हीनां नरेन्द्रेण सिंहहीनां गुहामिव ॥