This clean meat tastes sweet, having been roasted in fire. The righteous Rāghava was thus seated in company with Sītā, when Bharata's followers came there. And filling the heavens, there arose clouds of dust raised by the army as well as an uproar.
इदं मेध्यमिदं स्वादु निष्टप्तमिदमग्निना। एवमास्ते स धर्मात्मा सीतया सह राघवः॥ तथा तत्रासतस्तस्य भरतस्योपयायिनः। सैन्यरेणुश्च शब्दश्च प्रादुरास्तां नभस्पृशौ ॥