Having commissioned those eight terrible and mighty Rākşasas, Rāvana, in consequence of perversion of sense, considered himself as crowned with success.
संदिश्य राक्षसान् घोरान् रावणोऽष्टौ महाबलान्। आत्मानं बुद्धिवैक्लव्यात् कृतकृत्यममन्यत॥