As if riving the breasts of all the monkeys (present) the exceedingly energetic Kumbhakarņa, laughing frightfully and in a terrific manner, resembling the rumbling of clouds, addressed Rāghava, saying, “Take me not for Virādha, or for Kabandha, or yet for Khara. I am not Vāli or Mārīca. I am Kumbhakarma, that am come.
दारयन्निव सर्वेषां हृदयानि वनौकसाम्। प्रहस्य विकृतं भीमं स मेघस्तनितोपमम्॥ कुम्भकर्णो महातेजा राघवं वाक्यमब्रवीत्। नाहं विराधो विज्ञेयो न कबन्धः खरो न च। न वाली न च मारीचः कुम्भकर्णः समागतः॥