Observance, rendering each her dues:

By love and fond attention shown

They are my mothers like mine own.

Let Bharat and Śatrughna bear

In thy sweet love a special share:

Dear as my life, O let them be

Like brother and like son to thee.

In every word and deed refrain

From aught that Bharat's soul may pain:

He is Ayodhyá's king and mine,