Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.48

3.48

Then Māruti, interrogated in various ways by Prahasta, replied to Rāvaṇa.
"Here am I, a messenger of the glorious son of Daśaratha—the crest-jewel of the solar race, true to his promise, devoted to forest life undertaken at his father's command; whose arrows are like the fires of universal dissolution to the straw-bundle of forces led by Khara and the other night-roamers, enraged by the disfigurement suffered by Śūrpaṇakhā when she assailed the enemy of Śūrpa [Lakṣmaṇa]; who formed an alliance with Sugrīva while searching for his wife abducted during the slaying of the counterfeit deer; who uprooted the thorn that was Vālin; and who destroyed the pride in arm-strength of the son of Jamadagni, that treasury of austerities and wind to the forest of the wicked warrior lineage. I am one among the vānaras sent in every direction by the son of the Sun to search for Sītā's trail. Swift of foot across the ocean, having bowed to the lawful wife of the best of the Raghus at the boundary of your city's pleasure-garden, and wishing to depart, I crushed the grove of trees in the Aśoka grove only to make my arrival known, and merely out of curiosity to see you did I submit to the binding of the rākṣasa's spider-thread and approach your presence.
Imprisoning here the wife of the lord of Raghu's line, / whose noble conduct is celebrated as far as heaven, / why do you strive to tie up with a cloth, O ill-mannered one, / the friend of the wind born from the sacrificial altar? ..48..