The Race of Sages - Verse 42-45

(Ravana) had pike-like ears and ten necks. 2 He was yellowish in colour with red hair. He had four feet and twenty arms. He was huge-bodied and very powerful. From his very birth, he resembled collyrium. He had fang-like teeth. His neck was red. He was like Rajasena (?) and was endowed with good features and strength. He was intellectually truthful. He had a firm body. He (was surrounded) by Raksasas. Naturally he was terribe and ruthless. He was called Ravana because he roared. That king was Hiranyaka$ipu in his previous birth. That Raksasa king ruled for thirteen cycles of four Yugas.