स्थित्वा त्रिरात्रं ते विप्रा गमने कृतबुद्धयः । रात्रौ हनुमतोऽग्रे त इदमूचुः सुभक्तितः
sthitvā trirātraṃ te viprā gamane kṛtabuddhayaḥ | rātrau hanumato'gre ta idamūcuḥ subhaktitaḥ
Nachdem sie drei Nächte verweilt hatten, fassten jene Brāhmaṇas den Entschluss aufzubrechen. Dann, in der Nacht, traten sie vor Hanumān und sprachen diese Worte in tiefer Hingabe.
Narrator (contextual; later explicitly Vyāsa)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Listener: O King (rājan) implied by vocative in adjacent narration
Scene: Night in a forest shrine: brāhmaṇas with lamps stand before Hanumān, hands folded, faces earnest; the sense of concluding a vow after three nights.
Gratitude and bhakti toward the protector-deity are integral to righteous travel and religious life.
Dharmāraṇya remains the sacred landscape framing the episode.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is on devotional address (prārthanā) to Hanumān.