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In plain words
Following Vasiṣṭha’s advice, Sumitrā laid Lakṣmaṇa beside Rāma and Śatrughna beside Bharata, and at once the two stopped crying and slept peacefully. Afterwards they woke up playing. Seeing their joy, Sumitrā’s mind was eased. From that day Lakṣmaṇa would not stay apart from Rāma, nor Śatrughna from Bharata, even for a moment. So every day Sumitrā would go to Kausalyā and Kaikeyī, watch her sons at play, kiss them joyfully and come back. In this way the four brothers grew up in great love, as an example, in harmony.
The wedding of Sītā and Rāma
After Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa had guarded Viśvāmitra’s sacrifice, he took the two of them to Mithilā; there Rāma broke the bow of Śiva and, with his parents’ consent, married Sītā. People came in crowds upon crowds to see the wedding of Sītā and Rāma.
Come, let us go and see Rāma’s wedding, come, let us go and see, all you women together; wondrous mansions, festoons of pearls, windows at the corners, doors of diamond, sapphires inlaid, sapphires by the thousand, bazaars by the hundred: come!
ornaments richer than the women’s, and halls of audience before them; Rāma ties the sacred thread on Sītā, he has matched the two, alike in age, as a pair; the one fit for Sītā is Śrī Rāma: come!
outshining the men, bowing her head in modesty, sending for Vasiṣṭha, sending for swords, showering gifts upon the horses, showering and bestowing, winning praise, sending for them: come!