यो विधाता च धाता च सुकृतं दुष्कृतं तथा। त्रैलोक्यं विजितं येन तं कथं विजयिष्यते। अपरं किं तु कृत्वैवं विधानं संविधास्यति॥
yo vidhātā ca dhātā ca sukṛtaṃ duṣkṛtaṃ tathā| trailokyaṃ vijitaṃ yena taṃ kathaṃ vijayiṣyate| aparaṃ kiṃ tu kṛtvaivaṃ vidhānaṃ saṃvidhāsyati||
English Meaning
How can (Rāvana) subdue him who ordain things both great and small, who met rewards and punishments for good and bad acts, and who himself has conquered the three worlds? Resorting* to what other means shall Rāvana secure (victory)? *Explains the commentator: "Time has every thing under its control. Like the all-enclosing space, time pervades all that is. This being so, resorting what transcending Time, shall Rāvana obtain victory over it."
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)