"As a sinister planet looks over Star Rohini when she is devoid of Moon, that extremely sinister Ravana then looked ov…"

""Glittering like the glitter of gold, silkened in ochry silks, you are like a lotus-tendril garlanded with divine lot…"

"Your hips are beamy, thighs burly akin to elephant's trunks, and these two breasts of yours that are ornamented with …"

"I have not hitherto seen any earthly female with this kind of features on the face of earth; or, a goddess - no; a ga…"

"Standing on the sky I can lift up the earth with two of my arms, I can completely gulp down any ocean, standing in wa…"

"Ravana, unwilling under the influence of vanity to restore a stranger's wife, as well as Duryodhana to part with a po…"

"Separating [the flesh and blood of the demon] Hiranyakasipu from his skeleton,....and performing many valorous deeds,…"

"Well, what is the Ramayana? The conquest of the savage aborigines of Southern India by the Aryans! Indeed! Ramachandr…"

"Then, Rama the annihilator of enemies, answered Vibhishana and said "Alas! What glory, what majesty is Ravana's the L…"

"That Ravana, coming within the range of arrow-shots of Rama and Lakshmana, resembled Rahu (the demon who is supposed …"