They are devoted to your good, and are heroic and intent on your well-being, born in lines having high and fiery virtues, and endowed with intelligence, the flower of those bearing arms—and have been maintained by you. Therefore let a portion of the forces, having received your order, march to-day, and bring (hither) those foolish princes. It is meet that you should display your prowess before fores.” Thereat, the lord of the night-rangers, that potent enemy of the celestials and the foremost of Räkşasa monarchs, lending free play to his intellect, accepted the excellent words of his younger brother.
हिताश्च शूराश्च समाहिताश्च कलेषु जाताश्च महागुणेषु। मनस्विनः शस्त्रभृतां वरिष्ठाः कोपप्रशस्ताः सुभृताश्च सुभृताश्च योधाः॥ तदेकदेशेन बलस्य तावत् केचित् तवादेशकृतोऽद्य यान्तु। तौ राजपुत्रावुपगृह्य मूढौ परेषु ते भावयितुं प्रभावम्॥ निशाचराणामधिपोऽनुजस्य विभीषणस्योत्तमवाक्यनिष्ठम्। महाबलो राक्षसराजमुख्यः॥