¹ It is obvious that Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Daśaratha, Sumantra as well as others from the royalty, as we will notice later, were highly sensitive about not causing any distress to anyone living in their kingdom—even subhumans. Among communities that followed varṇāśrama-dharma properly, the four varṇas were stratified based on their selflessness and spiritual enlightenment. While the brāhmaṇas were spiritually enlightened and selflessly inclined to bring everyone to the plane of spiritual realization, the kṣatriyas were materially selfless and highly sensitive to the material discomforts experienced by their citizens, which included the subhuman species too. A kṣatriya in good standing loved his citizens more than he loved himself, as if they were his beloved children, and hence was eager to prevent them from experiencing any distress in this life or in the next. Naturally they were honored greatly and even worshipped. In Kali-yuga, when brāhmaṇas became corrupt, widespread corruption entered the kṣatriya community and the result is the mayhem we observe in the daily news.