Markandeyapurana 7.47

7.47

hānātha kiṃ jahāsyasmān nityārtiparipīḍitān /
tvaṃ dharmatatparo rājan paurānugrahakṛt tathā //

“Alas, O master! why leavest thou us, who are afflicted with continual sufferings? Thou, O king, art devoted to righteousness, and thou art the benefactor of the citizens. Lead us also, O Rājarṣi! if thou regardest righteousness. Stay a moment, O king of monarchs! Our eyes as bees drink[4] thy lotus-like mouth. When again shall we behold thee, who, when thou goest forth, art preceded and followed by kings? Here is thy wife, holding her young son in her hand, following thee, before whom, when thou goest forth, go thy servants seated on elephants! Here goes today walking afoot the king of monarchs, Hariścandra! Alas, O king, what will thy very youthful, beautiful-browed, soft-skinned, fine-nosed face become, when injured by the dust on the road? Stay, stay, O best of kings, observe thy own duty. Mildness is a very noble virtue, especially among kṣatriyas; what need have we of wife, what need of children, or of wealth, or of grain, O master? Abandoning all this, we have become mere shadows of thee. Alas master! alas Mahārājā! alas, O lord! why dost thou abandon us? Where thou art, there indeed will we be. That is joy, where thou indeed art. That is our city where thou art. That is Svarga where thou, our king, art.”