Then the courtiers said to that mighty monarch, Dasaratha, “He that is expected back should not be followed far". Hearing their words, the king endued with every virtue, with his body covered with perspiration and his countenance woebegone, and exceedingly distressed, stopped short and stood with his wife looking at his son
यमिच्छेत् पुनरायातं नैनं दूरमनुव्रजेत्। इत्यमात्या महाराजमूचुर्दशरथं वचः॥ तेषां वचः सर्वगुणोपपत्रः प्रस्विनगात्रः प्रविषण्णरूपः। निशम्य राजा कृपणः सभार्यो व्यवस्थितस्तं सुतमीक्षमाणः॥