Issuing out of Matanga's asylum, the mighty Rāma, lord of men, repaired with Lakşmaņa to the lake Pampā. Exercised with grief, he arrived at the bank of that best lakes, beholding (as he passed along), various trees and pools, the mighty forest covered on all sides with huge trees and flowers and resounding with the noise of lapwings, peacocks, woodpeckers and various other birds and rattling of the bamboo's.
आश्रमात्तु ततस्तस्मान्निष्क्रम्य स विशाम्पतिः॥ आजगाम ततः पम्पां लक्ष्मणेन सह प्रभुः। समीक्षमाणः पुष्पाढ्यं सर्वतो विपुलद्रुमम्॥ कोयष्टिभिश्चार्जुनकैः शतपत्रैश्च कीचकैः। एतैश्चान्यैश्च बहुभिर्नादितं तद् वनं महत्॥