Thus addressed by the monarch, Rāma, the best of the righteous, well versed in speech, with joined hands addressed his father thus.
एवमुक्तो नृपतिनां रामो धर्मभृतां वरः। प्रत्युवाचाञ्जलिं कृत्वा पितरं वाक्यकोविदः॥