So long Rāma was engaged poorly in anxious meditation with his crown bent downwards. Informed of the princes' arrival he commanded the warder, “Do you soon bring the princes here. My life depends upon them. They are my dearest life.
कुमारानागताञ्छ्रुत्वा चिन्ताव्याकुलितेन्द्रियः॥ अवाङ्मुखो दीनमना द्वाःस्थं वचनमब्रवीत्। प्रवेशय कुमारांस्त्वं मत्समीपं त्वरान्वितः॥ एतेषु जीवितं मह्यमेते प्राणाः प्रिया मम।