Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.61_9

2.61_9

Then at daybreak, upon the counsel of Vasiṣṭha, the ministers placed the king's body in a trough of oil and quickly sent messengers to the Kekayas: "Bring Bharata, saying nothing of Daśaratha's story!"
Shortening the path with horses whose swiftness conquered the wind, they bowed to Bharata, whose mind was distressed by bad dreams in the city of the lord of horses, and reported the preceptor's instruction.
Given leave by his maternal grandfather and by Yudhājit, he reached Ayodhyā in a few days, full of anxiety at the occurrence of bad omens.
His mind deeply shaken, seeing from afar the city / whose citizens no longer moved about as before, / Bharata, surrounded by the messengers, entered his father's palace / which was in no way different from a cemetery. //62