Whoever reads this story of Rāmāyana, conferring a long life is honoured in this world along with his sons and grand-sons and as well as in the land of the dead.
एतदाख्यानमायुष्यं पठन्रामायणं नरः। सपुत्रपौत्रो लोकेऽस्मिन्प्रेत्य चेह महीयते॥