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In the Padma Purana, when the wise Lakshmana, adorned with auspicious qualities, gently reasoned with him, the one who bore the unbearable wheel of brilliance, gradually relinquished his anger. ||11||
The wicked Kumaras, filled with malice, scorned him with words like thunderbolts. His soul, crushed by unprecedented causes, considered itself as insignificant as a blade of grass. ||12||
Driven by fear, I ascended to the sky and have returned to your feet. O God! If Lakshmana had not been there, I would have surely perished at the hands of Bhammandala. ||13||
O God! I have recounted the character of the enemy as I have experienced it, without any hesitation. Do what is right, for we, like me, are only those who follow orders. ||14||
Gautama Swami says, O Shrenik! Even those who are well-versed in many groups of scriptures, who are always engaged in matters of ethics, and who have good ministers by their side, become subject to delusion when they are enveloped by the dense clouds of delusion of the sun-like man. ||15||
Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter of the Padma Purana, known as Ravana's Messenger's Arrival and Departure, narrated by the sage Ravishena. ||66||
And they do not attack the messenger. ||60||