O good Råvaņa, you are well cognisant of the proper time for fighting. Now our king is drunk and is sporting with the females in the waters like an elephant in the circle of female-elephants. And now do you wish to fight with him. Therefore, O Ten-necked one, do you spend the night here, if you are bent upon fighting. Or even if you are anxious to enter speedily into conflict with Arjuna do you slay us all at first, and then fight with the king.
युद्धस्य कालो विज्ञातः साधु भो साधु रावण ॥ यः क्षीबं स्त्रीगतं चैव योद्धमुत्सहसे नृपम्। स्त्रीसमक्षगतं यत्त्वं योद्धमुत्सहसे नृपम्॥ वासितामध्यगं मत्तं शार्दूल इव कुञ्जरम्। क्षमस्वाद्य दशग्रीव उष्यतां रजनी त्वया। युद्धे श्रद्धा तु यद्यस्ति श्वस्तात समरेऽर्जुनम् ॥ यदि वापि त्वरा तुभ्यं युद्धतृष्णासमावृत। निपात्यास्मानणे युद्धमर्जुनेनोपयास्यसि॥