रावणस्य वचः श्रुत्वा शूरमानी खरात्मजः। बाढमित्यब्रवीद्धृष्टो मकराक्षो निशाचरम्॥ सोऽभिवाद्य दशग्रीवं कृत्वा चापि प्रदक्षिणम्। निर्जगाम गृहाच्छुभ्राद्रावणस्याज्ञया बली ॥
rāvaṇasya vacaḥ śrutvā śūramānī kharātmajaḥ| bāḍhamityabravīddhṛṣṭo makarākṣo niśācaram|| so'bhivādya daśagrīvaṃ kṛtvā cāpi pradakṣiṇam| nirjagāma gṛhācchubhrādrāvaṇasyājñayā balī ||
English Meaning
Hearing the words of Rāvana, Khara's son, Makarākşa, proud of his own own prowess, delightedly spoke to the night-ranger, saying, “Be it so." And saluting and circumambulating the ten-necked one, that hero, at Ravana's behest, issued out of the house.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)