पत्नीं च तमनुप्राप्तां वृद्धामामन्त्र्य सत्कृताम्। सान्त्वयामास धर्मज्ञः सर्वभूतहिते रतः।७।। अनसूयां महाभागां तापसी धर्मचारिणीम्। प्रतिगृह्णीष्व वैदेहीमब्रवीदृषिसत्तमः॥
patnīṃ ca tamanuprāptāṃ vṛddhāmāmantrya satkṛtām| sāntvayāmāsa dharmajñaḥ sarvabhūtahite rataḥ|7|| anasūyāṃ mahābhāgāṃ tāpasī dharmacāriṇīm| pratigṛhṇīṣva vaidehīmabravīdṛṣisattamaḥ||
English Meaning
And his aged wife having come there, Atri greeted her; and after she had been paid homage, the sage cognizant of virtue ever engaged in the good of all creatures, gladdened her (by presenting Sītā to her.) And that best of sages said to the pious female ascetic, Anasüyā, engaged in offices of virtue, “Do you accept Videha's daughter."
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)