And Atri related to Rāma matters connected with the female ascetic, engaged in offices of virtue, The people were ceaselessly burning in consequence of a drought extending over ten years. O sinless one, that one resembling your mother is this, by whom furnished with rigid asceticism and adorned with voluntary penances, were created fruits and roots and the Jāhnavi was made to flow through the asylum; by whom were performed mighty austerities for ten thousand years, in virtue of whose pen ances, disturbances to the asceticism of the sages ceased, by whom ten nights were brought within the compass of a single one.
रामाय चाचचक्षे मां तापसी धर्मचारिणीम्। रात्रिः दश वर्षाण्यनावृष्ट्या दग्धे लोके निरन्तरम्॥ यया मूलफले सृष्टे जाह्नवी च प्रवर्तिता। उग्रेण तपसा युक्ता नियमैश्चाप्यलंकृता॥ दश वर्षसहस्राणि यया तप्तं महत् तपः। अनसूयाव्रतैस्तात प्रत्यूहाश्च निबर्हिताः॥ देवकार्यनिमित्तं च यया संत्वरमाणया। दशरात्रं कृता सेयं मातेव तेऽनघ ॥