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)