Shloka 6.62.8
कुम्भकर्णस्य प्रबोधनम् — The Awakening and Commissioning of Kumbhakarna
अथासीनस्यपर्यङ्केकुम्भकर्णोमहाबलः ।भ्रातुर्ववन्देचरणौकिंकृत्यमितिचाब्रवीत् ।।6.62.8।।
kuruṣva me priyahitam etad uttamaṁ yathāpriyaṁ priya-raṇa-bāndhava-priya |
sva-tejasā vidhama sapatna-vāhinīṁ śarad-ghanaṁ pavana ivodyato mahān ||6.62.23||
Do for me this highest act of good, dear one—lover of battle and beloved of your kin. With your own splendor scatter the enemy host, like a mighty wind rising and driving away the autumn rain-clouds.
Getting up from his seat, Kumbhakarna endowed with extraordinary might bowed down and clasped his brother's feet and asked him, what task he had to do?
It dramatizes a dharma-conflict: affection and kinship are invoked to justify violence; the epic’s moral frame insists that right action must align with satya and justice, not merely with what benefits one’s own side.
Rāvaṇa explicitly asks Kumbhakarṇa to annihilate the opposing army, using poetic imagery and appeals to his nature as a warrior.
Martial zeal and loyalty to family are emphasized; the broader Ramayana teaching is that the highest virtue is righteous discernment guiding loyalty.