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Kaamasya
Rama and Lakshmana are highly pleased and asked, "Oh great-soul Sage Vishvamitra! Whose hermitage is this merited one? Indeed, who is the celebrity that lives therein? Oh, godly sage, we are interested to listen, and we are truly inquisitive about it."

On hearing their words, the eminent sage Viswamitra said smilingly, "whose hermitage is this in earlier times that may be listened. Rama, the wrathful third eye of Shiva destroyed the lewd-minded Love-god making all his limbs fall from his body. There the body of Love-god is evanesced when that great soul Shiva burnt it down, and by the anger of that god of gods Shiva, Love-god rendered as a bodiless entity. Manmatha and his wife Rati will have supremely exquisite physiques. At the very sight of Manmatha, everybody used to become prey to lasciviousness.

Therefore, Shiva had to completely burn down that physical form of love, whereby only Kaama, the mental desire, is remaining. Then onwards Love-god is renowned as Ananga, as he is without body, and where his body given up that renowned as Anga province. This hermitage belongs to Love God or Shiva, Tasya Kaamasya sthaaNorvaa. Because Shiva is a God who controls Love-god, Kameshwara, this is Shiva's hermitage. Oh, brave Rama, these sages abiding in virtue are Shiva's disciples at one time, thus sin is unverifiable with them. These sages are the progeny of the sages who long time back were the direct disciples of Shiva. Let us stay for this night in this hermitage situated in between two meritorious rivers Ganga and Sarayu, oh, Rama with auspicious mien, tomorrow we will cross over the River Ganga. Let us all purify ourselves by taking our bath, performing our meditations, offering our daily oblations, and then let us enter this meritorious hermitage, thus our stay in here will be comforting to us."