I said, "O chastiser of foes, O Rama, let me live as long as the history of your deeds remains extant on earth. Thereupon he said, “So be it."
यावद् राम कथेयं ते भवेल्लोकेषु शत्रुहन्। तावज्जीवेयमित्येवं तथास्त्विति च सोऽब्रवीत्॥