Hearing those words the highly powerful Rāghava, in the presence of Lakşmaņa, gave vent to the following accents out of affection.
तमब्रवीन्महातेजा लक्ष्मणस्योपशृण्वतः। विमृश्य राघवो वाक्यमिदं स्नेहपुरस्कृतम्॥