New edition and translation with commentary of verses 56-60 (= P 2781.71-78) of the Late Khotanese story of Rāma (cf. Abs. Ir. 20-21, 1997-1998, 34, no. 79) concerning « the agreement made by Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa to share the favours of Sītā ». I should translate 56c haṃtsa jsa samā-ṃ yudāṃdä not ‘They made a pact with one another (haṃtsa jsa ... -ṃ)’ but ‘With regard to (her) company (haṃtsa jsa), they made a pact with one another (-ṃ)’, cf. 58d khu śau ttraima haṃtse kiṃna ‘If one (of the two) should enter for the sake of (her) company’. Notwithstanding the punctuation preceding it, syntax and the number of syllables per pāda suggest that kṣārma belongs to 59b, not to 59c.