“Quick, quick, my beauteous Ráma bring.”

Then rose the happy thought to cheer

The bosom of the charioteer,

“The king, I ween, of pious mind,

The consecration has designed.”

Sumantra for his wisdom famed,

Delighted with the thought he framed,

From the calm chamber, like a bay

Of crowded ocean, took his way.

He turned his face to neither side,