Presently, the king, the queen and the citizens are all intently watching Lord Sri Ram’. Their mood swings between joy and melancholy, between hope and dismay as they are virtually swaying like a pendulum between the two extreme emotions of hope and expectation at one end, and despair and helplessness on the other end. (Once they are sure that Ram and Sita would be married, and then suddenly begin to doubt when they recollect the vow of king Janak which has tied the fate of Sita to the bow.) It is like them repeatedly filling and then emptying a symbolic pitcher of hope and desire, at one moment expecting some auspicious turn of events and some sort of miracle to happen that fills them with joy and excitement, and at another moment losing hope and feeling dejected, melancholic and remorseful. (In other words, once they feel that it is sure that Ram will break the bow and marry Sita and then become sullen and gloomy at the thought that this appears unlikely in the situation where so many valiant kings and princes are vying with each other to lift the bow. Even if some of them fail, some other will be successful. And in this eventuality, there is no hope ever of Ram being given a chance to lift and string the bow. This made them swing wildly between the emotions of hope and despair.)