Thus accosted, that ever energetic one knowing righteousness and devoted to it, Kākutstha, smiling, said to Sugrīva,
एवमुक्तस्तु तेजस्वी धर्मज्ञो धर्मवत्सलः। प्रत्युवाच स काकुत्स्थ: सुग्रीवं प्रहसन्निव॥