Thereupon proceeded Sumitrā and all other wives of Dasaratha placing kausalya before them and seated in excellent conveyances. And hearing of the return of his brother and attaining to delight, the high-souled and pious Bharata, reduced with fasting poorly, wearing bark and skin of an antelope and conversant with religion, issued out to receive back Räma in the company of his counsellors and encircled by the twice born ones, the people of diverse castes, his own relations and kinsmen and ministers with garlands and Modaka* in their hands, eulogized by the bards, having his arrival announced with the sound of conchs and bugles and placing the sandals of his worshipful brother on his head and taking white umbrella adorned with white garlands and white Chowries decked with gold and worthy of being used by the kings.
ततो यानान्युपारूढाः सर्वा दशरथस्त्रियः। कौसल्या प्रमुख कृत्वा सुमित्रां चापि निर्ययुः॥ द्विजातिमुख्यैर्धर्मात्मा श्रेणीमुख्यैः सनैगमैः। माल्यमोदकहस्तैश्च मन्त्रिभिर्भरतो वृतः॥ शङ्खभेरीनिनादैश्च वन्दिभिश्चाभिनन्दितः। आर्यपादौ गृहीत्वा तु शिरसा धर्मकोविदः॥ पाण्डुरं छत्रमादाय शुक्लमाल्योपशोभितम्। शुक्ले च वालव्यजने राजार्हे हेमभूषिते॥ उपवासकृशो दीनश्चीरकृष्णाजिनाम्बरः। भ्रातुरागमनं श्रुत्वा तत्पूर्व हर्षमागतः॥ प्रत्युद्ययौ तदा रामं महात्मा सचिवैः सह । अश्वानां खुरशब्दैश्च रथनेमिस्वनेन च॥