Then at the words of Agastya, the gate-keeper quick* and swift presented himself with celerity before the high-souled Rāghava. And that one versed in polity and emotional expressions, of worthy ways, possessed of ability, and endowed with patience swiftly seeing Rāma resembling the full moon in brightness, communicated to him the arrival of that supreme of saintsAgastya. *Turnam-according to the commentator, is mental celerity, and drutam-physical. This distinction, however, is seldom, if ever, observed by Sanskrit authors.
निवेद्यतां दाशरथेऋषयो वयमागताः। प्रतीहारस्ततस्तूर्णमगस्त्यवचनाद्भुतम्॥ समीपं राघवस्याशु प्रविवेश महात्मनः। नयेङ्गितिज्ञः सद्वृत्तो दक्षो धैर्यसमन्वितः॥ स रामं दृश्य सहसा पूर्णचन्द्रसमद्युतिम्। अगस्त्यं कथयामास संप्राप्तमृषिसत्तमम्॥