As thoughts of Kaikeyi's injustices came to his mind repeatedly Bharata's anger flared. Even after denouncing her so brutally he was not satiated, but continued reviling her. "May you be cast out of the country Kaikeyi! The harm that you caused Dasaratha sent him to his death. Dharma has abandoned you, wicked woman! Do not sorrow for a consort whom you have killed or better still consider me also dead and grieve forever. May you languish in hell and may you not enter the heaven that Dasaratha is in! Your outrage of driving away Rama, beloved of the people, has brought me disgrace. Your deplorable deeds have not bestowed upon me a crown, but anguish.

"Your infamy will also be mine for I too will be held responsible for the blame of Rama's banishment and Dasaratha's death.Do not speak to me! How much must be the grief of Kausalya and Sumitra for having to share this palace with you? For depriving Kausalya, of both husband and son, to which loka will you now go? One day Kamadhenu, the noble cow worshipped by the three worlds, looked down on to the earth.There she chanced to see two oxen wearied by the mid-day sun faint, as they ploughed and she wept. If Kamadhenu can weep for two, out of the many thousands of her breeds how can Kausalya live without her only son?I cannot bear your sins, as the people of Ayodhya look askance at me while they shed tears of distress. Why do you not cast yourself into a fire, or enter the Dandakaranya, or hang yourself with a noose around your neck? You have no other salvation. I will be rid of my sins after Rama sets foot in Ayodhya."Pained and angered like an elephant goaded, his sighs were like the hisses of an angry serpent. Red eyed with anger, clothes in disarray and ornaments awry, Bharata fell to the ground drained and dejected.