Husband, do you expect to conquer him in battle whose messenger performs such exploits? Leaping across the ocean as though in sport, that lion among monkeys entered dauntless the city of Lanka,

- slew your watchmen and laid waste the (ashoka) grove. Nay, he killed Aksha under your very nose, and, setting fire to the city, reduced the whole to ashes. Where did your pride of power remain lurking at that time?

Cease, my spouse, from idle boast and pay some heed to my words. Do not imagine that Raghupati is a mere king, my husband, but know him to be the Lord of the animate and inanimate creation, peerless in might.

The might of his arrows was known to Maricha, but you heeded not his warning, for you counted him mean. In Janaki’s court were assemble innumerable princes, and you too were there in all your incomparable and overwhelming might.

There he broke the bow and won the hand of Janaka’s daughter; why did you not conquer him in battle then? Jayanta, the son of Indra (the lord of heaven), knew a little of Rama’s might when he caught hold of him and spared his life after robbing him of an eye.

You have yourself seen Shurpanakha’s condition, yet when you though of fighting with him, weren’t you ashamed?

O Ten-headed, try to recognize him, who, having slain Viradha, Khara and Dushana, killed Kabandha in mere sport and laid Bali low with a single shaft.