Understanding the ways of love, he sympathized with a mother’s anxiety and ordered to be got ready convenient palanquins and seated carriages.
The men and women of the city like the chakwa and chakwi were anxious at heart for the dawn, when they might start. The whole night had been spent in watching, when Bharat summoned his wise counsellors and said to them: “Take all materials for the coronation, and there in the forest, sirs, invest Râma with the sovereignty: start at once.” At his word they bowed and speedily made ready horses, carriages and elephants. The king of sages (Vasishta) first mounted his chariot and led the way with his spouse Arundhati and all the materials for sacrifice. A host of Brahmans, renowned for their asceticism, followed in vehicles of different kinds, and next the citizens on their own conveyances all set forth for Chitra-kut. The elegance of the palanquins in which the different Rânis were seated is beyond description.
The men and women of the city like the chakwa and chakwi were anxious at heart for the dawn, when they might start. The whole night had been spent in watching, when Bharat summoned his wise counsellors and said to them: “Take all materials for the coronation, and there in the forest, sirs, invest Râma with the sovereignty: start at once.” At his word they bowed and speedily made ready horses, carriages and elephants. The king of sages (Vasishta) first mounted his chariot and led the way with his spouse Arundhati and all the materials for sacrifice. A host of Brahmans, renowned for their asceticism, followed in vehicles of different kinds, and next the citizens on their own conveyances all set forth for Chitra-kut. The elegance of the palanquins in which the different Rânis were seated is beyond description.