Hearing these words of his, Lankā capable of wearing forms at will, again addressed him in a speech fraught with dissonant letters:
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा लङ्का सा कामरूपिणी। भूय एव पुनर्वाक्यं बभाषे परुषाक्षरम् ॥