Having thus settled the vulture and the owl, being impatient with rage, quarrellirg with one another, appeaid before Rāma and touched his feet. Beholding that lord of men, the vulture said: "O preserver of humanity, you are the foremost of celestials and Asuras. O you of great effulgence, you are gifted with intelligence and learning more than BỊhaspati and Sukrácārya. You are cognisant of the good and bad conditions of creatures. In beauty you are like the Moon and are irrepressible like the Sun.
इति कृत्वा मतिं तां तु निश्चयार्थं सुनिश्चिताम्। गृध्रोलूको प्रपद्येतां कोपाविष्टौ हमर्षितौ॥ रामं प्रपद्य तौ शीघ्रं कलिव्याकुलचेतसौ। तौ परस्परविद्वेषात्स्पृशतश्चरणौ तदा॥ अथ दृष्ट्वा नरेन्द्रं तं गधो वचनमब्रवीत्। सुराणामसुराणां च प्रधानस्त्वं मतो मम॥ बृहस्पतेश्च शुक्राच विशिष्टोऽसि महाधुते। परावरज्ञो भूतानां कात्या चन्द्र इवापरः॥