माहेश्वरमिदं सत्रमसमाप्तं कुलं दहेत्। दीक्षितस्य कुतो युद्धं क्रोधित्वं दीक्षिते कुतः॥ संशयश्च जये नित्यं राक्षसश्च सुदुर्जयः। स निवृत्तो गुरोर्वाक्यान्मरुत्तः पृथिवीपतिः। विसृज्य सशरं चापं स्वस्थो मखमुखोऽभवत्॥ ततस्तं निर्जितं मत्वा घोषयामास वै शुकः। रावणो जयतीत्युच्चैहर्षानादं विमुक्तवान्॥
māheśvaramidaṃ satramasamāptaṃ kulaṃ dahet| dīkṣitasya kuto yuddhaṃ krodhitvaṃ dīkṣite kutaḥ|| saṃśayaśca jaye nityaṃ rākṣasaśca sudurjayaḥ| sa nivṛtto gurorvākyānmaruttaḥ pṛthivīpatiḥ| visṛjya saśaraṃ cāpaṃ svastho makhamukho'bhavat|| tatastaṃ nirjitaṃ matvā ghoṣayāmāsa vai śukaḥ| rāvaṇo jayatītyuccaiharṣānādaṃ vimuktavān||
English Meaning
If this Maheśvara-sacrifice should remain incomplete, it will burn up your dynasty. Where is the fight of one initiated in a sacrifice? And where is the passion of one initiated in a sacrifice? And victory is ever uncertain; and the Rākşasa is difficult to vanquish. And thereupon, the lord of Earth Marutta desisted in consonance with the instructions of his spiritual preceptor; and composed addressed himself to completing the sacrifice, giving up his bow with the arrow set. And thereat considering him as defeated, Suka proclaimed this all round, and from delight cried aloud, 'Victory to Rāvana!
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)