And pondered for a while, and said:

“Past number be his faults or few,

What think ye of the Rákshas who,

When threatening clouds of danger rise,

Deserts his brother's side and flies?

Say, Vánars, who may hope to find

True friendship in his faithless kind?”

The son of Raghu heard his speech:

He cast a hasty look on each

Of those brave Vánar chiefs, and while