Whereupon Rāma replied laughing: "I have not distributed as yet even one thousand of my cows. Do you hurl this rod, and you are the master of all those cows occupying the space at the extremely of which this rod shall fall."
तमुवाच ततो रामः परिहाससमन्वितम्॥ गवां सहस्रमप्येकं न च विश्राणितं मया। परिक्षिपसि दण्डेन यावत्तावदवाप्स्यसे॥