When things were in this condition, Rāvana's younger brother addressed Lakşmaņa in words fraught with evil to foes and conducing to the welfare (of his own party), saying.
अथ तस्यामवस्थायां लक्ष्मणं रावणानुजः। परेषामहितं वाक्यमर्थसाधकमब्रवीत्॥