And coming before Rāma, the foremost of those practising righteousness, those sages conversant with morality, met in a body, said to that pre-eminently virtuous one,
अभिगम्य च धर्मज्ञा रामं धर्मभृतां वरम्। ऊचुः परमधर्मज्ञमृषिसङ्घाः समागताः॥