With a bow in hand he has followed (Rama) flying as an exile to woods along with me. Thus that one (Rāma) of firm resolution and ever engaged in pious offices wearing matted hair and assuming the semblance of an ascetic has entered this forest of Dandaka along with myself and his younger brother,
अन्वगच्छद् धनुष्पाणिः प्रव्रजन्तं मया सह। जटी तापसरूपेण मया सह सहानुजः॥ प्रविष्टो दण्डकारण्यं धर्मनित्यो दृढव्रतः।