By observing various other difficulties for ascetic life in Citrakūṭa, Rāma lost the desire to continue living there and departed to another place. On the way, He reached Atri’s āśrama and offered His respectful obeisances unto that great sage. Atri described Anasūyā’s potency on account of her austerities and requested that Sītā-devī be with her. Atri’s wife Anasūyā praised Sītā-devī and then instructed her about the duties of a chaste wife.