And affectionately eyeing them as if drinking them with his sight, Rāma touchingly addressed those subjects as if they were his own, The love and regard which the inhabitants of Ayodhyā have for me, let them, for pleasing me, extend in full measure towards Bharata.
अवेक्षमाणः सस्नेहं चक्षुषा प्रपिबनिव। उवाच रामः सस्नेहं ताः प्रजाः स्वाः प्रजा इव ॥ या प्रीतिर्बहुमानश्च मय्ययोध्यानिवासिनाम्। मत्प्रियार्थं विशेषेण भरते सा विधीयताम्॥