जय श्रीराम!
विप्रोषितकुमारं तद्राज्यमस्तमितेश्वरम् ।
रन्ध्रान्वेषणदक्षाणां द्विषामिषतां ययौ॥ १२.११॥
Notes: Tragedy struck Ayodhyā. The Emperor, Daśaratha, lay dead. Śrīrāma and Lakṣmaṇa had gone into exile. Bharata and his brother Śatrughna were away in their uncle's faraway kingdom Kekaya. It was a situation of a headless state.
Even in the times of Rāmāyaṇa, nationhood and prosperity meant a stout and alert defence against enemies and attackers who would be lying in wait for an opening, figuratively "a hole", through which to enter and take over a headless kingdom. This has happened throughout human history. If we imagine the nature of history to be a chariot, it is drawn by four horses - greed, ambition, jealousy and enmity (my own Upamā!)
So the poet Kālidāsa says here, "The state of Ayodhyā lay with the princes abroad (exile and travel) and its king dead. Hence Ayodhyā vulnerable (literally a chink) to suffer invasion by opportunistic and smart enemies ready to attack for loot and greed."
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जय श्रीराम!
