Shloka 6.68.7
कुम्भकर्णवधश्रवणेन रावणविलापः (Ravana’s Lament on Hearing of Kumbhakarna’s Slaying)
पितृव्यंनिहतंश्रुत्वादेवान्तकनरान्तकौ ।त्रिशिराश्चातिकायश्चरुरुदुश्शोकपीडिताः ।।।।
iti bahu-vidham ākulāntarātmā kṛpaṇam atīva vilapya kumbhakarṇam |
nyapatad daśānano bhṛśārtaḥ tam anujam indra-ripuṃ hataṃ viditvā ||
Thus, with his inner self utterly shaken, Daśānana lamented Kumbhakarṇa piteously in many ways; and knowing that his younger brother—Indra’s foe—had been slain, he fell down, grievously afflicted.
Hearing about uncle's destruction, the sons of Ravana, Devanthaka, Naranthaka, Trisira and Atikaya, roared aloud afflicted by grief.
Dharma teaches that inner turmoil follows moral error; when truth is rejected and violence embraced, collapse—mental and political—becomes inevitable.
The narrator summarizes Rāvaṇa’s intense lament for Kumbhakarṇa and describes him falling down in anguish, closing the sarga’s episode.
Indirectly, the value of composure grounded in dharma is emphasized by showing its absence—Rāvaṇa’s agitation and collapse.