 एवमुक्त्वा दशग्रीवो मैथिलीं जनकात्मजाम्।।कृतान्तवशमापन्नो ममेयमिति मन्यते। 
 Having said this to the daughter of Janaka, the tenheaded Ravana who had fallen under the control of Yama, lord of death, misconceived that she had become his own.     Thus ends the fiftyfifth sarga of Aranyakanda of the holy Ramayana the first epic composed by sage Valmiki. 