Hearing the words of Rāma, the ascetic, whose face was downwards, gave out his degraded birth and communicated to him for what he was performing ascetic observances.
इत्येवमुक्तः स नराधिपेन अवाक्शिरा दाशरथाय तस्मै। उवाच जातिं नृपपुङ्गवाय यत्कारणं चैव तपःप्रयत्नः॥