Thus sweetly addressed by his preceptor personally, that foremost of men, Rāghava, replied to Vasistha, seated with him, saying.
एवं मधुरमुक्तः स गुरुणा राघवः स्वयम्। प्रत्युवाच समासीनं वसिष्ठं पुरुषर्षभः॥