However I am curious to learn who was their mother where was their residence and how they had been named so-do you favour me with the account." Rama having said this Agastya said:"O Rāma, I shall relate to you everything in short of what I had heard from Närada when he came to my hermitage.
जननी का च भवनं सा त्वया परिकीर्तिता। वालिसुग्रीवयोश्चापि नामनी केन हेतुना॥ एतद्ब्रह्मन्समाचक्ष्व कौतूहलमिदं हि नः। स प्रोक्तो राघवेणैवमगस्त्यो वाक्यमब्रवीत्॥ शृणु राम कथामेतां यथापूर्वं समासतः। नारदः कथयामास ममाश्रममुपागतः॥