Then early in the morning, like the fiery and refulgent sun entering a mighty mass of clouds, Vibhisana, fast to virtue and interest, heroic and possessed of exceeding splendour, playing a perilous part, * entered the apartment of his elder brother, resembling an assemblage of mountain summits and elevated like the peak of a mountain, orderly, divided into spacious rooms, the resort of the great-inhabited by august and intelligent persons attached (to Răvaņa); guarded around by lusty Rakşasas in limited numbers; having the air agitated by the breath of mad elephants; with loud blares of conchs, and resounding with trumpets; with loud blares of conchs, and resounding with trumpets; embosoming numbers of beautiful damsels, with its high-ways (overflowing with talk); furnished with doors of polished gold; embellished with excellent ornaments; resembling the abode of the Gandharvas, or the mansion of the Maruts; containing heaps of gems; like to the dwelling of serpents. *The project he had conceived, viz., converting Rāvana to his own polloy of pacification, was fraught with peril to himself, considering his brother's fierce temperament.
ततः प्रत्युषसि प्राप्ते प्राप्तधर्मार्थनिश्चयः। राक्षसाधिपतेर्वेश्म भीमकर्मा विभीषणः॥ शैलाग्रचयसंकाशं शैलशृङ्गमिवोन्नतम्। सुविभक्तमहाकक्ष महाजनपरिग्रहम्॥ मतिमद्भिर्महामात्रैरनुरक्तैरधिष्ठितम्। राक्षसैराप्तपर्याप्तैः सर्वतः परिरक्षितम्॥ मत्तमातङ्गनिःश्वासैर्व्याकुलीकृतमारुतम्। शङ्खघोषमहाघोषं तूर्यसंबाधनादितम्॥ प्रमदाजनसंबाधं प्रजल्पितमहापथम्। तप्तकाञ्चननिहं भूषणोत्तमभूषितम्॥ गन्धर्वाणामिवावासमालयं मरुतामिव । रत्नसंचयसंबाधं भवनं भोगिनामिव॥ तं महाभ्रमिवादित्यस्तेजोविस्तृतरश्मिवान्। अग्रजस्यालयं वीरः प्रविवेश महाद्युतिः॥