I have a particular wish to join the hermits in the woods, and now there is also my father’s order and your approval, mother.
Bharat, moreover, whom I love as myself, will obtain the kingdom; in every way God favours me to-day. If I go not to the woods under these circumstances, then reckon me first in any assembly of fools. They who desert the tree of paradise to tend a castor-oil plant, or refuse ambrosia to ask for poison, having once lost their chance, will never get it again; see, mother, and ponder this in your heart. One special anxiety still remains, when I see the king so exceedingly disturbed: I cannot understand, mother, how my father can be so much pained by such a trifling matter. He is stout-hearted and a fathomless ocean of piety: there must have been some great offence on my part, that he will not say a word to me: I adjure you to tell me the truth.”
Bharat, moreover, whom I love as myself, will obtain the kingdom; in every way God favours me to-day. If I go not to the woods under these circumstances, then reckon me first in any assembly of fools. They who desert the tree of paradise to tend a castor-oil plant, or refuse ambrosia to ask for poison, having once lost their chance, will never get it again; see, mother, and ponder this in your heart. One special anxiety still remains, when I see the king so exceedingly disturbed: I cannot understand, mother, how my father can be so much pained by such a trifling matter. He is stout-hearted and a fathomless ocean of piety: there must have been some great offence on my part, that he will not say a word to me: I adjure you to tell me the truth.”