Verse 1

¹Taught this by his father, Rama said So be it, joy of the Kurus, and for a year he went from ford to ford; and then he came back to the hermitage. ²Once Renuka went to the Ganga and saw the king of the gandharvas there, wearing a garland of lotuses, at his play among the apsarases. ³She had gone to the river for water; and watching him at his play, with a little longing for Citraratha in her, she did not remember the hour of the offering. ⁴Seeing that the time had gone by, and fearing the sage's curse, she came back, set the water jar down before him, and stood there with her hands joined. ⁵The sage understood that his wife had turned aside, and said in his anger: Kill her, my sons, the sinful woman. But when they had been told this they did not do it.