Paid evening rites in dress of bark,

And tasted water, on the strand,

Drawn from the stream by Lakshmaṇ's hand.

And Lakshmaṇ with observance meet

Bathed his beloved brother's feet,

Who rested with his Maithil spouse:

Then sat him down 'neath distant boughs.

And Guha with his bow sat near

To Lakshmaṇ and the charioteer,

And with the prince conversing kept