Saying these words to Rama, the foremost of the wielders of weapons and taking leave of and paying his respects to him (matali) set out (for the celestials regions) on that car of sunlike splendour.
इत्येवमुक्त्वानुज्ञाप्य रामं शस्त्रभृतां वरम्॥ सम्पूज्यापाक्रमत् तेन रथेनादित्यवर्चसा।