How have I and Rāma conspired against your happiness; and what offence do you find in us? Bharata will by no means accept the kingdom, depriving Rāma of it, for I consider Bharata a still more grounded in righteousness than Rāma himself. when I shall say, “Repair to the forest, and Rāma's countenance will fall, like to the moon overwhelmed by Rāhu, how shall I behold it?
किं नु दुःखमलीकं वा मयि रामे च पश्यसि। न कथंचिद्यते रामाद् भरतो राज्यमावसेत् ॥ रामादपि हि तं मन्ये धर्मतो बलवत्तरम्। कथं वक्ष्यसि रामस्य वनं गच्छेति भाषिते॥ मुखवणं विवर्णं तु यथैवेन्दुमुपप्लुतम्।