- in short, everything belongs to Raghunatha. If I leave it unprotected and go away, in the end it will not be good for me; for disloyalty one’s master is the worst of sins.

A servant is he who protects his master’s interests, however much others may find fault with him.’ So thinking, he sent for faithful servants who had never even dreamt of failing in their duty.

After declaring to them all he purposed, he taught them their paramount duty and entrusted them with the work for which they were severally fit. When he had made all these arrangements and posted the guards, Bharata went to see Rama’s mother.

Knowing all the queens in distress, Bharata, who understood the ways of love, ordered palanquins to be got ready and sedan-chairs to be equipped.

The men and women of the city, like the chakava and his mate, desperately longed for the dawn (when they might start). They kept awake the whole night till it was daybreak, when Bharata summoned his wise counsellors,

- and said to them, ‘Take with you all that is necessary for the coronation, for the sage (Vasishtha) will crown Rama even in the ministers made obeisance and had the horses, chariots and elephants immediately equipped.

Taking with him his wife, Arundhati, and he materials for the burnt-offering, the chief of sages, Vasishtha, was the first to mount the chariot and set out; and then hosts of Brahmans, who were all repositories of austerity and spiritual glow, followed in vehicles of different kinds.