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In the Padma Purana, O son, when will you attain the Lakshmi befitting your lineage? Seeing whom, our minds will be free from sorrow, like a wound that has been healed. ||241|| When will I see these two brothers of yours, adorned with prosperity, roaming freely in the world, free from thorns? ||242|| Hearing his mother's sorrowful words, Vibhishana, with the sprouts of anger like poison rising within him, smiled proudly and said, ||243|| "O Mother! Whether he is a Dhanada or a Deva, what power have you seen in him that makes you lament like this? ||244|| You are a mother of heroes, yourself a hero, and knower of all human endeavors. Why then, being such, do you speak like other women? ||245|| Just consider, whose chest is marked with the Srivatsa symbol, who bears a vast body, whose daily actions are always filled with wonder, who is mighty, and who, like fire covered with ashes, is capable of burning the entire universe. Has this Dasananan never entered your mind? ||246-247|| This one, by the power of his speed born of disrespect, can conquer the mind and shatter the peaks of Sumeru with the clap of his hands. ||248|| You do not know that his arms are the paved roads of his prowess, the pillars of the house of the universe, and the sprouts of the tree of pride. ||249|| Thus praised by his brother Vibhishana, a knower of virtues and arts, Ravana attained great power, like fire from ghee. ||250|| He said, "Mother, what is the benefit of praising yourself so much? But I will tell you the truth, listen. ||251|| Even if all the Vidhyadharas, puffed up with pride in their knowledge, come together in the battlefield, they will not be enough for even one of my arms. ||252|| Still, the worship of knowledge is befitting our lineage, therefore, we should not be ashamed to do it. ||253|| Just as the virtuous diligently worship penance, so too, the descendants of the Vidhyadharas should diligently worship knowledge.