Ministers of Ayodhyā

Having performed the water-offerings together with Bharata, the royal women, ministers, and the family priest re-entered the city with eyes flooded with tears and spent ten days lying on the ground in their grief.

When that night had passed and the sun had risen, the royal ministers and the twice-born assembled together and proceeded to the council hall.

However, the all-knowing ministers did not dare to perform the king's cremation without his son;