Hearing those words, Rāvana, the aggrandiser of the triple world, remonstrated with Tāra and ascending his flowery car went to the southern ocean and espied Vali, having red countenance like the rising sun, engaged in Sandhyā rites with whole-mindedness.
स तु तारं विनिर्भय॑ रावणो लोकरावणः। पुष्पकं तत्समारुह्य प्रययौ दक्षिणार्णवम्॥ तब हेमगिरिप्रख्यं तरुणार्कनिभाननम्। रावणो बालिनं दृष्ट्वा संध्योपासनतत्परम्॥