Arising after a long while he had regained his consciousness, Bharata endowed with prowess, regarding his distressed mother with eyes filled with tears, began to tax her in the midst of the courtiers: “I had never desired the kingdom. I had never consulted my mother. Nor did I know the installation that had been thought of by the monarch. I was then living in a far country in company with Satrughna."
दीर्घकालात् समुत्थाय संज्ञां लब्ध्वा स वीर्यवान्। नेत्राभ्यामश्रुपूर्णाभ्यां दीनामुद्वीक्ष्य मातरम्॥ सोऽमात्यमध्ये भरतो जननीमभ्यकुत्सयत्। राज्यं न कामये जातु मन्त्रये नापि मातरम्॥ अभिषेकं न जानामि योऽभूद् राज्ञा समीक्षितः। विप्रकृष्टे ह्यहं देशे शत्रुघ्नसहितोऽभवम्॥