मिथ्याप्रताजितो रामः सभार्यः सहलक्ष्मणः। भरते संनिबद्धाः स्मः सौनिके पशवो यथा॥
mithyāpratājito rāmaḥ sabhāryaḥ sahalakṣmaṇaḥ| bharate saṃnibaddhāḥ smaḥ saunike paśavo yathā||
English Meaning
Rāma has been deceitfully exiled along with his wife and Lakşmaņa; and we are bound to Bharata like to a (sacrificial) beast before one that is to slaughter it.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)