Book, Chapter

1   2, 3|        Till the royal bards and minstrels chanted forth the morning
2  11, 4|     Bards, reciters of Puranas, minstrels versed in ancient song,~
3  12, 3|       begun,~Rama to the hermit minstrels lent a monarch's willing
4  12, 3| Brahmans skilled in pious rite,~Minstrels deep in lore of music, poets
5  12, 3|      the Epic thus the youthful minstrels sung,~And the voice of stringéd
6  12, 3|         pieces be the children -minstrels' fee!"~"Not so," answered
7  12, 3|       Saint Valmiki," spake the minstrels, "framed the great immortal
8  12, 5|         Saw her sons as hermit -minstrels beaming with a radiance