O lord Răma, I have thus related to you the previous history. Having thus belaboured Rāvaņa Vālī at last made friends with him before fire.
एवमेतत्पुरावृतं वालिना रावणः प्रभो। धर्षितश्च वृतश्चापि भ्राता पावकसंनिधौ॥