इक्ष्वाकूणामिहाद्यैव कश्चिद् राजा विधीयताम्। अराजकं हि नो राष्ट्र विनाशं समवाप्नुयात् ।।८
ikṣvākūṇāmihādyaiva kaścid rājā vidhīyatām| arājakaṃ hi no rāṣṭra vināśaṃ samavāpnuyāt ||8
English Meaning
Do you select some on this very day from the descendants of Ikşvāku, to be king here. Verily does a kingdom go to ruin, when without a king.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)