कालधर्मं गते राम सगरे प्रकृतीजनाः | राजानं रोचयामासुरंशुमन्तं सुधार्मिकम् || १-४२-१
"When King Sagara passed away owing to the irrefutable virtue of Time, the ministers and subjects of that kingdom were predisposed towards the highly honourable Amshuman to become their king and they enthroned him accordingly." Thus Vishvamitra continued narration about the predecessors of Rama. [1-42-1]
Oh ! Delight of the Raghus having vested the kingdom with Dileepa, Anshuman performed rigid penance on the sacred peak of the Himavat mountain. [1-41-3]
On practising ascesis in ascetic-woods for thirty-two thousand years that highly renowned king Amshuman achieved heaven as he acquired only the wealth of practising the ascesis. [1-42-4]
The great resplendent Dileepa on hearing the elimination of his grandfathers ( the sixty thousand sons of Sagara at the hand of sage Kapila, and with a mind that is marred by the plight of his father Amshuman in absolving the souls of Sagara's sons ), he could not arrive at any decision concerning the descent of Ganga. [1-42-5]