This beautiful city, O you furnished with expansive eyes, was formerly inhabited by Räkşasas of dreadful prowess headed by Sumāli; and for that reason, O son of Viśravā, he asks you this. Do you, my child, grant this to him, who is humbly begging for it.
इयं किल पुरी रम्या सुमालिप्रमुखैः पुरा। भुक्तपूर्वा विशालाक्ष राक्षसैर्भीपविक्रमैः॥ तेन विज्ञाप्यते सोऽयं सांप्रतं विश्रवात्मज। तदेषा दीयतां तात याचतस्तस्य सामतः॥