Then having arrived at the Ocean, the king wending in Ganga's wake, entered underneath the Earth, at that spot where those (sons of Sagara) had been reduced to ashes. And, O Rāma, on the ashes being washed by the waters of Gangā, Brahmā, the lord of all creatures thus spoke to the monarch.
स गत्वा सागरं राजा गङ्गयानुगतस्तदा। प्रविवेश तलं भूमेर्यत्र ते भस्मसात्कृता॥ भस्मन्यथाप्लुते राम गङ्गायाः सलिलेन वै। सर्वलोकप्रभुर्ब्रह्मा राजानमिदमब्रवीत्॥