Honey, and curds, and oil, and grain,

He bade each heart and voice unite

To bless the youthful anchorite.

Then Ráma's mother, glorious dame

Bestowed, to meet the Bráhman's claim,

A lordly fee for duty done:

And thus again addressed her son:

“Such blessings as the Gods o'erjoyed

Poured forth, when Vritra[300] was destroyed,

On Indra of the thousand eyes,