Could by a beauty's prayer be bought

To quit his own obedient son,

Who loves him, as my sire has done!

Bharat, Kaikeyí's child, alone

Will, with his wife, enjoy the throne,

And blissfully his rule maintain

O'er happy Kośala's domain.

To Bharat's single lot will fall

The kingdom and the power and all,

When fails the king from length of days,