- Oh ! brave men, until you reach a lake named Pampa. The slopes of Pampa are levelled and without stones or pebbles. They are not slippery slopes. They are without moss. [3-73-11]
Oh ! Rama, It has smooth beds of sand on the banks and it is full of lotuses and lilies. Oh ! Son of the Raghus ( Rama ), there ( you will see ) swans, ducks, krauncha birds and curlews..... - [3-73-12]
- cackling and cooing, moving in the waters of Pampa. Not knowing that they may be killed, the innocent creatures will not be scared of human beings. [3-73-13]
Both of you can kill and eat the fat birds comparable to balls of ghee. Oh ! Rama, scion of the Raghu dynasty, rohita fish and big fishes and crooked-faced fishes,..... - [3-73-14]
पम्पायामिषुभिर्मत्स्यांस्तत्र राम वरान्हतान् | निस्त्वक्पक्षानयस्तप्तानकृशानेककण्टकान् || ३-७३-१५
- fishes with a single bone, fishes without scales and fins there at Pampa, by shooting an arrow at the choicest fishes, baked on iron skewers and cooked..... - [3-73-15]