The king (Dasrath) worshipped sage Kaushik (Vishwamitra) and gave alms to Brahmins generously. Besides that, he did all the good deeds that were deemed necessary for the welfare and good of Sri Ram who is akin to a sun for helping the lotus-like eyes of the world to develop and bloom. (The metaphor of the lotus and the sun is used to mean that Lord Ram gives immense happiness and joy to the world. The Lord’s sight and presence is a giver of all sorts of cheerfulness and happiness to the creatures of this world. Lord Ram is compared to the ‘sun’, and the rest of the world to the ‘lotus flower’. When the world ‘sees’ the Lord with it’s ‘eyes’, it becomes jubilant and exhilarated just like the lotus flower that opens its petals as soon as it sees the rising sun.)