Thus did that magnanimous one beseech us. On the high-souled Lakşmaņa bringing water, Rāghava having drunk it, fasted along with Sītā.
लक्ष्मणेन यदानीतं पीतं वारि महात्मना। औपवास्यं तदकार्षीद् राघवः सह सीतया॥