O foremost of men, do you ask particularly, about this, Vālmīki, the foremost of ascetics. They being all thus struck with curiosity, Satrughna said: It is not proper for us, O You soldiers, to question him in this way. There are many such wonders in the hermitage of this ascetic.
साधु पृच्छ नरश्रेष्ठ वाल्मीकिं मुनिपुङ्गवम्। शत्रुघ्नस्त्वब्रवीत्सर्वान्कौतूहलसमन्वितान्॥ सैनिकानक्षमोऽस्माकं परिप्रष्टुमिहेदृशः। आश्चर्याणि बहूनीह भवन्त्यस्याश्रमे मुनेः॥