“How shall I, O Vişņu, withstand, the Rákş asa Rāvaņa? The highly powerful Rākṣasa has come here for battle. It is by virtue of the boon that he is powerful, not for any thing else. It is proper to make the words uttered by Brahmă, truthful.
विष्णो कथं करिष्यामि रावणं राक्षसं प्रति। अहोऽतिबलवद्रक्षो युद्धार्थमभिवर्तते।७।। वरप्रदानाद्बलवान खल्वन्येन हेतुना । तत्तु सत्यं वचः कार्यं यदुक्तं पद्मयोनिना ॥