To prompt the deed and sanction it,

In Ráma's life no cause I see

For which the king should bid him flee.

His blinded eyes refused to scan

The guilt and folly of the plan,

And from the weakness of the king

Here and hereafter woe shall spring.

No more my sire: the ties that used

To bind me to the king are loosed.

My brother Ráma, Raghu's son,