In every house, women wept and in anguish heaped abuses on their husbands on their arrival at home with words (sharp) like goads on elephants : - [2-48-6]
The rivers and the lotuspools have done some meritorious acts in the past as a result of which Rama having plunged into their holy waters will make his ablution. [2-48-8]
Forests with beautiful groves rivers with vast expanse of waters, mountains with their slopes will enhance the lustre of the scion of the Kakutsthas (Rama). [2-48-10]