Then saluting the saints headed by Vasiștha, Rāma, the descendant of Raghu, seeing his son stupefied, addressed him, saying,
अभिवाद्य ततो रामो वसिष्ठप्रमुखानृषीन्। पितरं विकलं दृष्ट्वा प्रोवाच रघुनन्दनः॥