At those words of theirs, that foremost of ascetics, smiling, said, Hear, O Rama, as to whom the asylum has belonged in time past.
तयोस्तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा प्रहस्य मुनिपुङ्गवः। अब्रवीच्छ्रयतां राम यस्यायं पूर्वं आश्रमः॥