And numbering over an hundred, flaming up in their native effulgence, those high-souled anchorites entered the royal residence. And they presented Rāma with various fruits in profusion and vessels filled with sanctified waters of all holy spots. Thereupon, accepting the waters of the holy places as well as the various kinds of fruit, that mighty-armed one spoke to the mighty ascetics.
शतं समधिकं तत्र दीप्यमानं स्वतेजसा॥ प्रविष्टं राजभवनं तापसानां महात्मनाम्। ते द्विजाः पूर्णकलशैः सर्वतीर्थाम्बुसत्कृतः॥ गृहीत्वा फलमूलं च रामस्याभ्याहरन्बहु। प्रतिगृह्य तु तत्सर्वं रामः प्रीतिपुरस्कृतः॥ तीर्थोदकानि सर्वाणि फलानि विविधानि च। उवाच च महाबाहुः सर्वानेव महामुनीन्॥