With skilful glance survey the ground:

Here be some spot selected, best

Approved for gentle hermits' rest,

Where thou, the Maithil dame, and I

May dwell while seasons sweetly fly.

Some pleasant spot be chosen where

Pure waters gleam and trees are fair,

Some nook where flowers and wood are found

And sacred grass and springs abound.”

Then Lakshmaṇ, Sítá standing by,