Some of the assembled kings feel jealous of those kings who they observe are being welcomed by king Janak, and at the same time they envy the majesty, wealth and grandeur of Janak' as well as the finesse with which he deals with all of them. They resent the way the newly arrived kings and princes are being shown respect by Janak according to their status (because some of these egoistic and haughty kings think that no other king is greater than them in this world). (There were some proud kings who were full of vanity and haughtiness. They would not tolerate that some other king should be shown respect in their presence. This made them look and feel inferior to others in front of their attendants, something that they were not willing to digest. Besides this, they were also jealous of the wealth of their host, king Janak, because they watched him liberally spending wealth, without hesitation or limit, in the welcoming ceremony of countless monarchs. They were already in awe at Janak’s material prosperity and the wealth of the kingdom, and this awe turned into an exacerbated sense of jealousy and envy when they saw that other kings were given liberal gifts which could have been theirs in the first place if these kings had not come. They grumbled, ‘why did Janak not give this or that gift to me, and why did he think I did not deserve some precious gift that he gave to that other king?’ And so on and so forth There was another reason for their exacerbated sense of jealousy and envy. They felt that the more people assembled to compete to break the bow, the chances of their getting an opportunity to try their strength and luck would be correspondingly less because of the crowd and its accompanying melee, and the corresponding necessity to stand in a queue. They loathed this idea—because, after all, one king at a time could be allowed to try his luck, and the first one to successfully lift and string the bow would get to marry Sita, the trophy of the competition, while others behind the successful candidate would be left in the lurch. This would be too grave an insult for those who could not even try. All these factors created a lot of resentment and grumbling amongst the assembled kings and princes.)