Hearing the Sītā without any trouble had given birth to two sons and elderly female ascetics had been engaged in protecting them and bearing the chanting of Råma's glories in the midnight, Satrughna thought within himself.
संकीर्तनं च रामस्य सीतायाः प्रसवौ शुभौ॥ अर्धरात्रे तु शत्रुघ्नः शुश्राव सुमहत्प्रियम्। पर्णशालां ततो गत्वा मातर्दिष्ट्येति चाब्रवीत्॥