Canto 3 -
Araṇya-kāṇḍa
Chapter 35: Rāvaṇa Goes to Meet Mārīca Again
Text 3.35.37
तत्र कृष्णाजिनधरं जटावल्कलधारिणम्।
ददर्श नियताहारं मारीचं नाम राक्षसम्॥
tatra kṛṣṇājinadharaṁ jaṭā-valkaladhāriṇam
dadarśa niyatāhāraṁ mārīcaṁ nāma rākṣasam
tatra = there; kṛṣṇa-ajinadharam = and black deer skin; jaṭā-valkaladhāriṇam = his hair was matted and he wore a cloth made of bark; dadarśa = he saw; niyata-āhāram = he had restricted his eating; mārīcam = Mārīca; nāma = named; rākṣasam = the rākṣasa.
There he saw the rākṣasa named Mārīca. His hair was matted and he wore a cloth made of bark and black deer skin. He had restricted his eating.
1 Many have indeed become devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead upon being punished by Him, especially in Kṛṣṇa-līlā—Kālīya is one obvious instance.
That Mārīca’s hair was matted, that he wore a cloth made of bark and black deer skin and that he had restricted his eating are signs indicating that he had developed renunciation, for he had become a devotee of Lord Rāma [by now].1