At the intercession of the gods, Indra is supplied with testicles of a ram; Ahalyaā gets back her pristine celestial form at the very sight of Śrī Rāma, the moment he enters the hermitage, and the two divine brothers are entertained by the lady with the help of her husband.

Having stayed overnight at Viśālā as an honoured guest of Sumati,Śrī Rāma, accompanied by Viśwāmitra and the other sages, heads towards Mithilā (the capital of King Janaka) and, on reaching on the way a deserted hermitage and, inquiring about it, is told by Viśwāmitra how Ahalyā, wife of Sage Gautama, whose hermitage it was, was subjected to a curse by her husband.

Viśwāmitra tells Śrī Rāma how on the very site of the grove where Diti practised her austerities, Vi‹åla, a son of Ikswāku, built the city of Viśālā. Sumati, the contemporary ruler of Viśālā, receives Viśwāmitra and his party as his distinguished guests.

Disconsolate over the death of her sons, Diti embarks on a course of austerities at Kuśaplava with the permission of her husband, Sage Kaśyapa, with the object of securing a son capable of killing Indra. The latter on coming to know of her intention serves her during the period of her consecration and, taking advantage of her falling asleep on one occasion with her head in a wrong position, and thereby transgressing the rules of purity, enters her womb and carves the foetus.

Viśwāmitra tells Śrī Rāma how in the remote past the gods and the demons conjointly churned the ocean of milk, using Mount Mandara as the churning rod, how Lord ›iva drank off the deadly poison skimmed out of it, how as a result of that churning appeared Lord Dhanvantari, a bevy of Apsarās, the beverage known by the name of Vārunī, the horse Uccaihśravā the Kaustubha gem and nectar, and how the conflict of gods and the Daityas ended in the destruction of the latter.

Applauding Bhagīratha, Brahmā urges him to gratify the souls of his departed great grand-uncles by offering them the water of the Gangā, and after doing his bidding, Bhagīratha returns to his capital; the glory of hearing and reading the story of Gangā’s descent on earth.

Pleased with the asceticism of Bhagīratha, Lord Śiva receives the Gangā on His head and discharges it into Bindusarovara. Branching forth into seven streams it then accompanies Bhagīratha to Rasātala and liberates his forbears on the way.

Amśumān and his grandson, Bhagīratha, successively practise austerities for bringing down the Gangā to the terrestrial plane. Brahmā grants a boon to Bhagīratha and exhorts him to propitiate Lord Śiva and secure His consent to receive the Gangā on His head.

Under orders of Sagara his grandson Amśumān proceeds to Rasātala through the underground passage made by his uncles and, bringing back the sacrificial horse, tells the king about the fate of his uncles.

Brahmā reassures the gods by telling them that the sons of Sagara will be destroyed by the curse of Sage Kapila. The sons of Sagara in the course of their excavation arrive in the presence of Kapila and, behaving insolently towards him, are forthwith reduced to ashes by the fire of his wrath.

Indra steals away the horse released by Sagara as a prelude to his horse-sacrifice; his sixty thousand sons proceed to excavate the earth in quest of the horse and the gods in terror apprise Brahmā of this daring of theirs.

The narrative of King Sagara, a former king of Ayodhyā and a forefather of Śrī Rāma.

A detailed account of Kārtikeya’s birth through Gangā.

Gods interrupt the amorous pastimes of Lord Śiva and His Consort, Goddess Umā, on which She curses gods, including Mother Earth.

Crossing the Sona, Viśwāmitra and party reach the bank of the holy Gangā and spend the night there. Requested by Śrī Rāma, he narrates the story of the origin of the Gangā.

Kuśanābha performs a sacrifice for the birth of a son and is blessed with one, Gādhi by name; the glory of the river Kauśikī (the modern Kosi in Bihar).

Kuśanābha applauds the forbearance and forgiveness of his daughters; the story of the birth of Brahmadatta and his marriage with Kuśanābha’s daughters.

An account of the four sons of Kuśa; the hundred daughters of Kuśanābha turn hunch-backed under a curse of the wind-god.

Accompanied by Śrī Rāma, Laksmana and a host of Rsis, Sage Viśwāmitra proceeds northward in the direction of Mithilā to witness the bow-sacrifice of King Janaka and breaks his journey on the bank of the Sona at sunset.

Śrī Rāma protects the sacrifice of Viśwāmitra against the onslaught of the Rāksasas and gets rid of them.

Viśwāmitra tells Śrī Rāma the history of Siddhāśrama and arrives at his own hermitage with the two brothers.

At the request of Śrī Rāma the sage Viśwāmitr instructs him as well as Laksmana in the process of calling back the missiles and delivers some more missiles to them.

Gratified with the death of Tātakā, Viśwāmitra imparts to Śrī Rāma the knowledge of the various missiles.

Śrī Rāma kills Tātakā.