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60. Crossing big rivers resembling those that break and overflow their banks, the two reached Sabari who was famous in the jungle like the sidhya (wish-fulfilling) star (of the Pusya constellation)
61. (Sabari) who was wearing a clean pair of bark garments, who had made a girdle of mutija grass, who was emaciated, who was similar to a slab of black collyrium, who was with a staff and had a bed of deer-skin ;
62. (Sabari), noble like a usable word, of clear-cut form, void of ( any) aberration, not capable of being enslaved about as she had given up desires, acceptable to the gods, and irreproachable :
63. (Sabari), ever engaged in religious rites, whose meal consisted of non-aphrodisiac fruits. On seeing her, Rama shed off fatigue, as if (he had) arrived in a carriage
64 . Then he enquired of her : ‘Do you perform the ritual for the manes on the arrival of the newmoon day, with sweet fruits that need not be cooked ?
