Having worshipped Ganesh and Purari, they bestowed enormous gifts upon the Brahmans and were a supremely delighted as an utterly indigent beggar who finds the four great rewards of life.

The queens were all so overcome with joy and rapture that their feet refused to move and they waxed faint. Passionately longing for a sight of Rama, they all began to prepare the lustral lamps.

Music of every kind started playing, as Sumitra joyfully made ready her festal oblations of turmeric, blades of durva grass, curds, leaves, flowers, betel-leaves, areca nuts, auspicious roots,

-unbroken rice, too, and sprouts of barley, yellow powder and parched grain and lovely blossoms of the tulasi plant. Exquisitely beautiful vases of gold, painted in various colours, looked like nests built by Cupid’s own birds,

- and auspicious perfumes defied all description. In this manner all the queens prepared all sorts of fair-omened offerings. They made ready rows of lustral lights arranged in various devices and with cheerful hearts sang melodious festal strains.

With golden salvers in their lotus hands, laden with articles of good omen, the queen-mothers went forth joyfully to greet their sons, their bodies quivering with emotion.

The sky was darkened with the fumes of burning incense, as though overhung with the fast-gathering thunder clouds of Shravana (August). The gods rained down wreaths of flowers from the tree of Paradise, which seemed to the beholders like rows of cranes in graceful flight.