me. And while spending three nights, Rāma, learned in polity and attached to virtue, prayed to that lord of streams-the Ocean. Yet the wicked Ocean, albeit adored according to his deserts by Rāma with his mind concentrated, did not show himself.
स त्रिरात्रोषितस्तत्र नयज्ञो धर्मवत्सलः। उपासत तदा रामः सागरं सरितां पतिम्॥ न च दर्शयते रूपं मन्दो रामस्य सागरः। प्रयतेनापि रामेण यथार्हभिपूजितः॥