The race of the sages: Atri and Vasiṣṭha - Verse 51
Brahmanda Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 8 · Verse 51
Sanskrit Original
सत्त्वबुद्धिजितैर्चङ्क्षरा असैरेव रावणः। हिरण्यकशिपुर्ह्यासीद्रावणः पूर्वजन्मनि। चतुर्युगानि राजाभूत त्रयोदश स राक्षसः।।
sattvabuddhijitaircaṅkṣarā asaireva rāvaṇaḥ| hiraṇyakaśipurhyāsīdrāvaṇaḥ pūrvajanmani| caturyugāni rājābhūt trayodaśa sa rākṣasaḥ||
Sūta said: In his previous birth Rāvaṇa was Hiraṇyakaśipu. That Rākṣasa ruled as king for thirteen sets of four Yugas. The period (of his rule) reckoned in years in accordance with human calculation comes to fifty-six million one hundred and sixty-thousand years. O Brāhmaṇas, he could give terrible sleepless nights to the Devas and sages. In the twenty-fourth Tretā-yuga, the power of penance of Rāvaṇa was exhausted and dwindled down. Coming into contact with Rāma, the son of Daśaratha, he met with destruction along with his followers.