Her very life on him depends.

For, if her lord she might not see,

Ayodhyá like the wood would be.

She bids him, as she roams, declare

The names of towns and hamlets there,

Marks various trees that meet her eye,

And many a brook that hurries by,

And Janak's daughter seems to roam

One little league away from home

When Ráma or his brother speaks