पितुः सत्यं प्रतिश्रुत्य हत्वा भरतमाहवे। किं करिष्यामि राज्येन सापवादेन लक्ष्मण॥
pituḥ satyaṃ pratiśrutya hatvā bharatamāhave| kiṃ kariṣyāmi rājyena sāpavādena lakṣmaṇa||
English Meaning
Having promised to maintain my father's truth, what, O Laksmana, shall I, having slain Bharata in battle, do with the kingdom with a stain attached to it?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)