O Rāma, this many Brahmanas-this great body of men that have assumed the Vānaprastha mode of life, although having you for their lord, are being sorely troubled by Rákşasas, as if they had none.
सोऽयं ब्राह्मणभूयिष्ठो वानप्रस्थगणो महान्। त्वंन्नाथोऽनाथवद् राम राक्षसैर्हन्यते भृशम्॥