One has to offer presents of flowers collected by his ownself to the altars, O Sītā, according to the rites of the ascetics; so the wood is full of misery.
उपहारश्च कर्तव्यः कुसुमैः स्वयमाहतैः। आर्षेण विधिना वेद्यां सीते दुःखमतो वनम्॥