Hearing the words of Rāvaņa, the Rāksasa Mārīca assuming the wonderful shape of a (golden) deer began to range at large before Rama's hermitage.
स रावणवचः श्रुत्वा मारीचो राक्षसस्तदा॥ मृगो भूत्वाऽऽश्रमद्वारि रामस्य विचचार ह।