Lanka Kaanda
178 - Ravana awakes Kumbhakarna; Kumbhakarna's exhortation to Ravana and dialogue between Vibhisana and Kumbhakarna
Chaupais
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"You have not acted well, O demon king. And now why have you come and woke me up? Yet, abandoning pride, worship Sri Rama and you will be blessed. Can the Lord of the Raghus, O ten-headed Ravana, be a man, who has couriers like Hanuman? Alas, brother, you acted unwisely in that you did not break this news to me earlier. You have courted war with the Divinity who has for His servants gods like Siva and Viranci (the Creator). I would have confided to you the secret which the sage Narada had once imparted to me; but the time has passed. Squeeze me, brother, in close embrace now, so that I may go and bless my eyes with the sight of the Lord who has a swarthy complexion and lotus-like eyes and who relieves the threefold agony of His devotees."