सत्यप्रतिज्ञं पितरं राजानं पश्य राघव। अद्यैव त्वां स धर्मात्मा यौवराज्येऽभिषेक्ष्यति ॥ दत्तमासनमालभ्य भोजनेन निमन्त्रितः। मातरं राघवः किंचित् प्रसार्याञ्जलिमब्रवीत्॥ स स्वभावविनीतश्च गौरवाच्च तथानतः। प्रस्थितो दण्डकारण्यमाप्रष्टुमुपचक्रमे॥
satyapratijñaṃ pitaraṃ rājānaṃ paśya rāghava| adyaiva tvāṃ sa dharmātmā yauvarājye'bhiṣekṣyati || dattamāsanamālabhya bhojanena nimantritaḥ| mātaraṃ rāghavaḥ kiṃcit prasāryāñjalimabravīt|| sa svabhāvavinītaśca gauravācca tathānataḥ| prasthito daṇḍakāraṇyamāpraṣṭumupacakrame||
English Meaning
See, Oh Rāghava, how truthful is your father the king! That virtuous-souled one shall install you this day as the heir-apparent of the throne Rāghava, humble by nature, who was offered by his mother a seat and asked by her to eat something, stretching forth a little his clasped hands, and with his head down wards with a view to show respects towards his mother, touched the seat, and began to relate to her the object of his repairing to the Dandaka forest.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)