Lord Brahmá's words who spoke my fate:

“Tremble, proud Giant,” thus they ran,

“And dread thy death from slighted man.

Secure from Gods and demons live,

And serpents, by the boon I give.

Against their power thy life is charmed,

But against man is still unarmed.”

This Ráma is the man foretold

By Anaraṇya's[965] lips of old:

“Fear, Rávaṇ, basest of the base: