When Bharata reached Citrakūṭa with His army and so on, He recognized it as matching with Bharadvāja Ṛṣi’s description of it. He then dispatched some soldiers to find out where Rāma resided. Not far from there, the soldiers searching for Rāma’s residence noticed smoke billowing up into the sky and they reported it to Bharata. Bharata thought that the smoke might be coming from Rāma’s āśrama. He then instructed the army to stay where it was and decided to go with Vasiṣṭha and Sumantra to that place.