Thereat, the gentle Rāma, endowed with arms resembling the body of the sovereign of serpents, in that encounter addressed Kumbhakarņa, like to an elevated cloud and possessed of the splendour of a mountain, as he darted forward, saying.
ततस्तु धारोद्धतमेघकल्पं भुजंगराजोत्तमभोगबाहुः। तमापतन्तं धरणीधाराभमुवाच रामो युधि कुम्भकर्णम्॥