Thus accosted (by the sages), Rāma answered them with joined hands: "What does he live on? What are his ways? And where does Lavana live?"
तथोक्ते तानृषीरामः प्रत्युवाच कृताञ्जलिः। किमाहारः किमाचारो लवणः क्व च वर्तते॥