Chapter 86 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 86

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 86.1

अथ तस्यामवस्थायां लक्ष्मणं रावणानुजः। परेषामहितं वाक्यमर्थसाधकमब्रवीत्॥

atha tasyāmavasthāyāṃ lakṣmaṇaṃ rāvaṇānujaḥ| pareṣāmahitaṃ vākyamarthasādhakamabravīt||

English Meaning

When things were in this condition, Rāvana's younger brother addressed Lakşmaņa in words fraught with evil to foes and conducing to the welfare (of his own party), saying.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)