As Sugrīva was speaking thus with joined hands, that best of the righteous, Rāma, embraced him with his arms, and then replied,
इति ब्रुवाणं सुग्रीवं रामो धर्मभृतां वरः। बाहुभ्यां सम्परिष्वज्य प्रत्युवाच कृताञ्जलिम्॥