Markandeya said : Then, Ravana, smarting under the shafts of Cupid, saw Sita-afflicted with sorrow for her husband, melancholy, wearing an unclean garb, having a jewel only for her ornament, lamenting (profusely), devoted to her husband, waited upon by the Rakshasa females and seated on a stone and approached her and he, whom the gods, the demons, the Gandharvas, the Yakshas and the Kimpurushas could never conquer in battle, inflamed with lust, repaired to the Ashoka gardens.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच ततस्तां भर्तृशोकार्ता दीनां मलिनवाससम्। मणिशेषाभ्यलङ्कारां रुदतीं च पतिव्रताम्॥ राक्षसीभिरुपास्यन्ती समासीनां शिलातले। रावणः कामबाणातॊ ददर्शोपससर्प च॥ देवदानवगन्धर्वयक्षकिम्पुरुषैर्युधि। अजितोऽशोकवनिकां ययौ कन्दर्पपीडितः॥