स गत्वा सागरं राजा गङ्गयानुगतस्तदा। प्रविवेश तलं भूमेर्यत्र ते भस्मसात्कृता॥ भस्मन्यथाप्लुते राम गङ्गायाः सलिलेन वै। सर्वलोकप्रभुर्ब्रह्मा राजानमिदमब्रवीत्॥
sa gatvā sāgaraṃ rājā gaṅgayānugatastadā| praviveśa talaṃ bhūmeryatra te bhasmasātkṛtā|| bhasmanyathāplute rāma gaṅgāyāḥ salilena vai| sarvalokaprabhurbrahmā rājānamidamabravīt||
English Meaning
Then having arrived at the Ocean, the king wending in Ganga's wake, entered underneath the Earth, at that spot where those (sons of Sagara) had been reduced to ashes. And, O Rāma, on the ashes being washed by the waters of Gangā, Brahmā, the lord of all creatures thus spoke to the monarch.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)