What poet can describe in full the magnificence of the palace of Dasarath, in which Rama, the glory of highest heaven, had taken birth?
The king next called Bharat: “Go and prepare horses and elephants and chariots and start at once for Raghubir’s marriage procession.” When they heard this order, both brothers were full of excitement. Bharat sent for all the chief officers and issued his commands, and they rose in joy and haste to perform them. First they made gorgeous trappings for the horses. Of different colours were the gallant steeds, but all well-proportioned and mettlesome, touching the ground with their feet as lightly as though it were red-hot iron. I cannot tell all the various breeds; they would race the wind and outstrip it. The princes who mounted them were all like Bharat, graceful, beautiful and gorgeously attired, with bow and arrows in hand and well-filled quiver at their side.
The king next called Bharat: “Go and prepare horses and elephants and chariots and start at once for Raghubir’s marriage procession.” When they heard this order, both brothers were full of excitement. Bharat sent for all the chief officers and issued his commands, and they rose in joy and haste to perform them. First they made gorgeous trappings for the horses. Of different colours were the gallant steeds, but all well-proportioned and mettlesome, touching the ground with their feet as lightly as though it were red-hot iron. I cannot tell all the various breeds; they would race the wind and outstrip it. The princes who mounted them were all like Bharat, graceful, beautiful and gorgeously attired, with bow and arrows in hand and well-filled quiver at their side.