My counsel wise and good appear.

For greater gifts than mine adorn

Ráma my son, my eldest-born.

Like Indra brave, before him fall

The foeman's cities, tower and wall.

Him prince of men for power and might,

The best maintainer of the right,

Fair as the moon when nothing bars

His glory close to Pushya's stars,

Him with to-morrow's light I fain