Their names and lineage to declare.

Him then the noble Lakshmaṇ, blest

With fortune's favouring marks, addressed,

And told the fiend his brother's name

And the high blood of which he came:

“Ikshváku's heir here Ráma stands,

Illustrious through a hundred lands.

I, younger brother of the heir,

O fiend, the name of Lakshmaṇ bear.

His mother stole his realm away