Avathara purushan by Vali (part 3)
Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
Aranya Kanda
Chithra koota Continued
Next day along with three mothers, sage, minister,
Relations and his retinue Bharatha reached shore of Ganga
On the north side
of Ganges was Bharatha,
And on its south
side was Guha
Sumanthra had told Bharatha that
Guha was a mountain of good qualities,
There was no body to tell Guha that,
Bharatha was a
treasure of culture,
So he became angry and ordered his people
“The one who stands in the opposite shore in my Lord’s brother,
His name is Bharatha, only in look he is the pure one,
But he is bad one who
stole the crown,
By his mother’s misadventure
Not only he robbed him of his crown,
He has come to rob
his breath also,
Just like
uprooting a plant
“So we have to steal his head, Stay here,
I will go and see him and come back
Guha came to the
northern shore,
The son of Kaikeyi
who was wearing a tree bark,
saluted him
Seeing Bharatha and Sathugna in a saintly form,
Guha Thought like this
“Will brothers born after
my lord commit a mistake?”
He fell on the floor and saluted Bharatha,
Bharatha hugged him tightly, the very dear Guha
Then Bharatha explained
the reason for his coming
“My taking the
country of elder brother is not Dharma,
And to salute his feet
and request him,
And make him sit
on the throne, I have come to the forest,
Alas, my mind has
been boiled by the wrong bad name
Hearing the words
of the great and pure Bharaha , guha told
“You have refused
the country saying getting of royal staff is wrong
Oh my God , Even if thousand Ramas join together,
Will they be everequal
to you?”
Guha in boats took all of them to other shore,
When Guha showed them, the way Kosala Rama went
Walking the entire day , several Kadha distance ,
Bharatha and others, reached the hermitage of Bharadwaja,
There they stayed
, took food, stayed over night,
Took rest and
slept
The sky became white and next day began,
And Sun started in the chariot drawn by the horses,
He gave alms of Light to all the world
The mist melted,
in that happiness,
Crows cawed
The forest folded
the bed of night,
Stood up did surya namaskarsa,
And threw away
the blanket of pitch darkness
The travel continued, thinking of Pattabhi Rama,
The feet of Bharatha walked,
When they reached
Chithra koota.
Making the relatives stand little far away,
Along with Sathrugna,
Bharatha reached ,
The place of
residence of Rama
Dasatha Rama saw his brothers in the dress of penance,
He was perplexaed, and before his confision was over,
Bharatha fell at the divine feet of Rama,
After falling , with tears dropping he got up
Anantha Rama
tightly hugged his dear younger brothers,
Asked “Are every one
all right?”
When the younger brothers told him the news of
The demise of their father, one second,
He stood like a
picture
Then crying loudly , he fell on the floor,
He cried loudly,till his toungues dried up
He fainted for
some time, Again he woke up,
And started
prattling
“Oh my father, the magic which never went back on his words,
Oh Body , in which the soul of all citizens were concentrated,
The peak of the fame
without any breaks
The meaning of Dharma, , Summary of all rare
Vedas
The national song which the country sang daily,
The Arya lamp which came to extend , the light of sun
clan,
The east meant for
sun to rise
Due to my going to the forest, you died and went to heaven,
Even after you
went to heaven, I without dying am living well,
What shall I tell about this, except that this is my fate and nothing else”
The royal Guru Vasishta and Sumanthra consoled Rama, and
took him to the lake,
To perform the water ritual which he has to do his
father,
His great wife Sita
and younger brother Lakshmana,
Dipped in water and stood
in tears
BHaratha fell on the feet of Pattabhi rama and cried and
begged
In spite of requesting again and again, Rama the follower
of Dharma,
Was not ready to
return to Ayodhya
Rama the son of
mother Kausalya said with determination
That he will be
obeying father’s words and will live in
Danda karanya,
For fourteen years
and then only return
BHaratha the great one who understood ,
That it is not possible
to make as emperor,
The sun who looked
like moon,
The eldest son of Dasaratha and the epitome of truth,
Received the
divine sandals of the blessed Rama
Carried them with both hands, placed them on his head,
Told it with all
the fourteen worlds knowing,
“These are my
crown” and returned back,.
Along with all those who came with him.
He who returned home, did not enter the city, and lived,
In a pretty village
called Nandigrama which was near ayodhya
Kept the sandals on a
golden seat, worshipped them,
Sat below them and became
the king.
Viradhan
He is the divine
one who gives us
All the Dharma, wealth
, and joy
But due to his entering a womb,
And went out as a human being
Like a normal human being
Kakustha,
Had troubles of
the mind, love and affection,
Worries, tears
from eye etc etc,
Which affected him
The parting with
farther, pity to brother,
The inauspicious
form of his three mothers,
The cry of ayodhya due to losing its king
Due to his mind being churned by this ,
Son of Dasaratha, left Chithrakoota,
And along with Sita and younger brother,
He started towards
south
Aruna was the charioteer
of sun,when ,
He untied the
seven horses and was about to take rest,
They reached the
hermitage of Sage Athri
Sage Athri was one who cut off all his desires,
Without a scissor by harsh penance, he was one ,
Who has spread his address up to the sky
His wife was Anasooya,one who changed,
The trinity of Gods
in to three month old babies.
When there was a
great famine , she brought ganges,
From head of Shiva and removed the thirst of her husband
Anasooya was devoid of jealousy and had kept ,
Fire of virtue in her eyes
The lord , his wife
and younger brother,
Saluted with great regard
, sage Athri and his wife,
And gave them their greetings and they slept
there that night
Next day , early
morning, Anasooya embraced Janaki,
And gave her cloths, ornaments, turmeric, kum kum etc
And then she said
“Oh lady who came along with her husband,
With a pretty smile to the forest, from now on,
You will be the material for song of,
Poets all over the
world,”
Roared see like a
voice from sky
After knowing the forest path from the sage,
All the three
continued their journey to south.
And they measured
dandaka forest with their feet
His name was Dumburu, he was a Gandharwa,
He was one person who lived in Khubera’s Alakapuri,
In the deva;s assembly once Ramba performed a dance.
Dumburu who was
charmed by her beauty ,
Got this needless
thing there
He got passion towards her , Indra got angry,
And next second
Dumburu received a curse
He became a
Rakshasa called Viradha,
And started roaming
in Dandakaranya,
Due the boon of immortality given by Lord Brahma,
He started making great
mistakes there
When the lord was
coming with his younger brother,
And the young peacock, he came before them
In A second that
Kiradha carried Sita in his hands,
And raised in to the sky
Saying “Stop” Rama kept
an arrow in to his bow,
He who was bad and
one who needed a word,
Stopped there and told
“I am immortal, this boon has been given by Brahma,
I am one who is growing his body using meat,
This deer would be
useful for my exercise,
You leave her with me and escape, or do you want to die?
Tell” , he said
The holy one who
heard the words of the mean one,
Pulled with speed the
thread of the bow and made ,
The age old earth to shiver
Hearing that sound, the asura who was scared like,
A serpent hearing the thunder, left Sita on earth,
And threw a trident on Rama the sun not caught by eclipse,
With sharp arrows Rama made it useless,
Viradha uprooted a big mango tree and beat ,
Lord Rama with it
Rama sent an arrow
and powdered that tree
Though he sent several arrows , Viradha did not die,
So the lord and brother
jumped on his shoulders,
To cut him with their sword, but he carrying them ,
Spun in the sky,
so that their six senses became dull
Hey Rakshasa give alm of life to my god,
For your hunger to
fill up , you swallow me,
Requested Sita, for she was standing alone in the ground
Hearing the cry of
his elder brother’s wife,
Unable to Bear Lakshmana told,
Brother , why this
hide and seek,
This made Rama
more fast and he kicked,
Viradha on his hips and as soon as he fell down ,
He cut off his shoulders,
Whatever he did,
Viradha did not die,
His soul did not leave, Rama said,
Brother you dig a
burial pit for him,
For burying him will be good,
Brother did dig
a pit
To him who had boon of immortality,
Lord Rama
kicked him in to the pit,
How shall we
describe , what happened?
He who had boon of
immortality, died and got,
Boon of never being born again,
He got the boon of never
opening the womb,
He got boon of not
forgetting God
The Feet of the
very great Lord Rama,
Is the good feet , that
removes problems in life,
The good feet which puts an end to our sins
The soft feet who grants shade to those who do not believe
The two feet is that
which adds good to all,
The feet of the
guru, which shows the way even for those,
Who have not
learned
AS soon the feet saluted by Vedas touched him,
The Asura
Viradha became Gandharwa,
He understood all
that had happened before,
And thanked the
lord and went away.
3.The ten years
When the valorous Rama, Vaidehi,
And Lakshmana who
never closes his eyelids,
Reached the small hut
of Saint Sarabhanga,
It became evening,
In the hospitality
of the saint, the three ,
Lost all tiredness
of walking all day
SArbhanga had to done great Thapas to get salvation,
He had cut by his sword of wisdom, the net of relationship,
Which tie you to the world
He knew the secret of incarnation of Rama
And knew Lord Narayana has taken the human form,
And has left his country and has come to the forest.
And that is why he had
kept his soul ,
Which should have gone long back,
Thinking that
Rama will come and was ,
Watching with anxious
eyes , the way he is likely to come
Now when primeval Lakshmi
, Narayana and adhisesha,
Had come to his hermitage, the sage became very happy,
Yes , when the father and Mother come ,forest will become Vaikunta
When that night
they slept their and started in the early morning,
Sage Sara Bhanga, prayed to lord Rama,
Oh Lord only for this I had kept under control,
The bird called life, Saying this,
He lighted fire and jumped in to it,
And Pattabhirama
ruled that ,
For him gate of salvage
will be open.
And then the three
of them walked
They reached the
garden in Dandakaranya,
Where all sages lived
In that garden
there were lot of hermitages,
And several sages round each of these hermitages,
Wherever you
see skin of deer and hide of wood,
Kamandalu and ochre
cloths, were seen everywhere.
After washing the hand and mouth in a stream,
Some took water in the cup made of two hands
And made offering to the sun god
Some chanted the various branches of the non written,
Vedas Rik,
Yajur ,Sama and Atharvana,
And due to that chanting
a divine feeling raised and
spread,
The grass, animals and the words got salvation from their
sins,
The forest got a
bath of spiritual wisdom
Seeing the coming of son of dasaratha , his brother,
And the daughter in law
who was like goddess Lakshmi,
They were
greeted and welcomed by the sages.
They boomed auspicious prayers, And gave ,
The auspicious Akshatha for all of them.,
They vacated a
hermitage for the lord to come,
Along with lakshmana and
Lakshmi and came ,
With a request.
Oh lord here day
and night we are suffering ,
Due to trouble created by asuras,
We are unable to complete
dharmic deeds,
And leave them half finished,
Just like dotted deers in the midst of tigers,
We are spending
time amidst these fears
,
Because you are
God who walks on his legs,
We request you to
protect us
They creating problems and preventing us,
From chanting the Vedas and in our
Yaga fire , they are throwing abominable meat
Oh king of kings, till you return to Ayodhya,
You three should
stay in this place of penance,
And wipe away the
sorrow of sages
When the scholars
with requested thus,
The Lord of
Veda told thus
From today I will
live here in one hermitage,
And kill the asuras
by sending arrows,
I will spend my time
by standing guard to you
And there the endless Rama constructed a thatched hut,
And there along
with his wife and younger brother,Lived
for ten years
He lived there keeping the sages in view
4.Jatayu
After ten years were
over,
As per advice of
the learned as well as elders,
To see Agasthya
who has controlled over self,
Followed by wife
as well as brother,
The lord started,
He thanked the sages and started from there
After walking a long distance ,
He reached the hut of great Guru Sutheekshnaa,
From him , he understood
the place of living,
Of sage Agasthya
Agasthya, if we take
the strength of all penance,
Keep it on one pan of the balance and keep Agasthya on the other,
The pan where Agasthya
sat would be down
He was the person who got
the great Tamil,
From primeval Siva
and distributed it.
His form was dwarf, but
it is only because of him
The fame of Tamil grew very tall
He was the one who reduced the pride of Vindhya mountain,
And who filled up Cauvery in his water pot
He was the one
who took the entire ocean in his
palm,
And drank it as achamana and one who stood in the south,
To balance earth
during marriage of Parvathy and Shiva
This great Agasthya , the Brahmin without any pride,
Was saluted by
falling on the ground by the great Rama
Agasthya gave him
the bow of the sun and his quiver
Then as per orders
of Agasthya, surrounded by loving wife and brother,
He started towards
by Panchavati, The pattabhirama who was saluted by the five elements
When he travelled
for a small distance to south,
He met Jatayu, the
head of hawks,
And Dasaratha’s
great friend,
Seeing each other , they thought “who the other person
is”
After talking to each other, they knew each other,
And after
heartily knowing each other,
Jatayu asked “Is Dasaratha Ok” and Rama replied,
“My father has
gone to heaven”
Jatayu was very sad
and said , “alas”,
And shed limitless
tears like a river,
He sighed, struggled, and suffered,
And unable to bear the sorrow,
Fainted and fell down,
Then when the tears of all the three ,
Sprayed on him like pearls, Jatayu woke up from Faint.
He slightly consoled
himself,
He opened his
wings and moving them,
Slightly reduced the heat
of his sorrow.
He then told them about his past friendship ,
With Dasaratha to
all the three of them,
And he showed himself as a stream of affection
“Oh children, your father and myself were one soul,
In two bodies, only by species we were born differently,
After Dasaratha has gone, my living alone is not proper,
Will I make it late now, I will light a fire and enter it,
You are my children, please do the after death rites to
me,
Please keep this lowly one as your junior father
Rama refused to
accept the request of the king of hawks
Oh sir, we have seen you as if we have ,
Seen again our lost father, all three of us are
overjoyed,
If you die we will
again be without support,
To whom shall we go for consolation and support?
Hearing the words of good Ramachandra, Jatayu ,
Left off the thought of taking away his life
And promised them that he would keep himself alive,
Till the son of Dasaratha returns back to Ayodhya
Then the king of birds asked,”oh Pattabhirama, you are
the crown prince,
Why you have spun your long hair using milk of Banyan
tree?
Why are you
wearing , hide of tree as dress?
Why are you
walking without slippers and upper
cloth?
There must be a
cause , What has happened there?
Rama signed by his
eyes, Lakshmana to reply to the
question.
The Rama’s brother
who eats only wind,
In detail told him about all the past
The king of hawks shed tears for a second,
And hugged Lord
Rama with his chest
:Oh Good one who obeyed
the words of your father,
As long as this world surrounded by ocean is there,
Your name will
live and all the souls,
Will learn from you about what is Dharma,
He praised him till his mouth pained,
He praised him till his mouth pained,
And covered him with his
open wings as a honour
Jatayu flew and showed the way to Panchavati to them,
And went home
Rama without words told, he is the grammar of friendship.
5. Surpanakha
Godhavari is the writing by long clouds on the sky,
On pages of the land using water,
And long line of
story
With short and long, the tides standing straight,
And going down, this water poem ,
Runs touching both shores,
And wind of the shore of the river will read it while walking,
And some times will think unable to understand the depth of the poem
Near the shore of
river Godavari,
In the place
surrounded by five banyan trees,
Its looks is the feast to the eye
Kalyana Rama was enjoying the wind sitting at the gate of
the hut,
Made by his dear brother using leaves of coconut
He was the Rama
without sugarcane bow in his hand
From some distance
Rakshasi Surpanakha stared at him,
With ears like a winnow, with habits of killing souls and
eating them,
And for getting them she used to roam round the
world at night
The fate written
by God-send Surpanakha towards Panchavati
and it,
Turned the arrows
of Rama towards south Lanka
Surpanakha- to her , good characters are great
enemies,
She only breaths the smoke from the dead,
She will eat corpses
like cooked rice and
She will sip the
skull which is burnt like mango
seed
She will take bath in blood like water in the pond,
And she will practice swimming in it and enjoy entire day
This dirt was given to earth by her mother Kekasi, a rakshasi
Her father was a Brahmin
named Visravas.
The king of Lanka
was her elder brother
One intelligent person came as husband to Surpanakha,
Due to jealousy
Ravana killed him by his battle
sword,
Wonder, he wiped off the kumkum of his loving sister,
And more surprising for that his loving sister ,
Read and Sent him
a loving greetings
This surpanakha stood little far away and stared at
Good Rama,
She left long
breaths and sweated
Earlier when she sees human meat , her stomach will feel hungry,
First time it came
to her body like a brick clin’
Her body boiled,
she was surprised to see,
Sun God sitting
with a tuft
First time body of the daughter of devil horripilate,
And her body was
filled with passion
The desire rooted in her mind that she should,
Make love with this man and urgency irrigated it,
And next moment she changed her own form by manthra
And appeared as a
coloured peacock
She tied her six
feet hair which resembled in colour,
The darkness of
new moon and made it in to a bundle
She took the light of full moon , divided
in to half-half
And shared it in
to her two looks,
In side the bra she tied the fruits of green coconut and
,
From head to foot, she
made it in to great prettiness
The anicha flower
which will wilt if you smell,
Did it get two legs and is coming walking with face and
nose
Or is it that a tower
wearing anklets in its two feet,
And getting very
narrow hips and was moving tenderly
She was coming
with magical colour,
And was coming
with step by step and looked ,
Like the
sister of the king of Lanka,
She came and stood before Rama,
She said her name
was Kama Valli
To the flower on
which lie was written over the eyes with
Kajal,
“which is your place, who are your relatives , please
tell” Rama asked
That cheater who resembled The jack fruits in the root,
And like the silver moon told answer
“The king Ravana is one who has lifted Kailsa
mountain,
He is born along with me
Since passion to you was born in me, I am born along with
you
,I was born to dance in the bed room, till it becomes the
morning,
Lying on the chest of you who is the king,
I was born to sing
in the tune of God of love,
You are the most
pretty among men,
You have come to wipe away the mind of ladies,
Hiss is the sound fire, if we light it,
Hiss is the sound fire, if we light it,
The fire of desire
would be put out,
Come , kiss me, make sound with your golden lips,
Understanding the
intention of thr Rakshasi , Rama replied
You are born in Brahmin caste and I am born in royal
caste,
Following our caste
, it is better for us to be separate
Surpanaka asked
him to throw away enmity of the towns
Oh Black coloured one, where is caste and justice to love,
I am burnt with
passion from top to bottom, come embrace me,
Put out the fire of passion in me, You are the dam for
flood of desire,
For me to sleep, only your lap is the pillow
At that time, from the hermitage Sita looking like a golden doll came out,
Seeing Sita Surpanakha
became angry, she creamed at her,
She told about
Sita to Sitarama
“hey Pretty one, she is not a lady, she is a great
devil,
She has dressed
in lies, she eats uncooked meat,
Please , do not go near
that ghost,
Hearing the words
of the Rakshasi, Sita was scared,
And Sita embraced tightly Rama who was near by
Rama abused that Kama valli who blamed the golden girl,
He understood that
to talk now in fun , would lead to wrong
things,
Oh Lady who is fit to be hated, Go away from here,
Go away to your home,
You are the boundary for all evil things,
If my younger brother comes , you will not exist
After warning the
Rakshasi who troubled him,
The hero entered in to his hermitage along with Sita,
And closed its door, He hugged his wife who was scared
with sensitivenss
After making plants for revenge, that cruel Surpanaka .,
Returned to
her cave
Surpanakha did
not sleep that entire night,
The one side love which went and sat on her head did not get down,
The killing passion tried to her who was love lovelorn,
She who ate human
body, was eaten by passion to a man,
In the hermitage there in a man of love,
And to him she loves , there is one companion he loves
And so without love , he is hating me
I should beat and kill that alternate life and eat her,
Then she should call the pretty man to the bed room
Thinking like this that magician waited for darkness to
lift,
And went in search of Panchavati
Month of
Marrgazhy, the time of early mist,
The early dawn, the
sky became white
The lord whom all beings salute always,
Was doing sandhya vandana,
In the shore of sacred river, on the land covered with
grass
Surpanakha came, there
was no security at the gate of
hermitage,
But the brother of
Rama was guarding and due to lack of attention she did not see
When she was about to enter the hermitage,
Lakshmana lifted
his sword
Rama’s brother
knew that Surpanakha has come,
To take away Sita.
He cut off her ears, nose and busts by
his sword
Crying and wailing that Rakshasi shouted
When Rama came back from bank of sacred waters,
The brother
explained to him , why he cut off her nose
And at last Rama
told Surpanakha,
“Oh lady born in
Rakshasa clan, we are children of Dasaratha,
For us our father’s words are the four Vedas,
Only to obey his words
, we have come to Dandakaranya,
We have given to sages here that we will protect them,
If we see the bad people who spoil the penance of sages,
Killing them, is my nature, Killing your Rakshasa clan,
And helping the clan of devas survive, is my principle
I am the one who killed your grandma Thadaka that time,
Very many such arrows are there in my arrow collection,
Remember this, Some how
stop your death,”
Hearing the words of Raghuvara the Rakshasi
became angry
“Oh dust of a
human being, hear about my clan.
Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Vibheeshana are my own broithers.
My step mothers children are Khara, TRishira, Thodana.
He is the king who sits in Janasthana and rules,
My brother is Khara and you are ordinary me
My elder brother
is a very bold one, He has boon from Lord shiva,
He has hands that can powder an elephant, He has arrows that will put out
fire.
There is no one who can oppose him, there is no one,
Who has with weapon won over him,
There is no one who has come to fight with
him,
And returned back
with life,
I will bring him
here and with his help I will
kill all of you’
Surpanakha warned like this and seeing the south she called,
“Oh brother who has twenty eyes,
He who with your hand lifted the mountain on which shiva lived,
He who has won over
elephants of eight directions,
And brought them under your control,
He who chained
Indra and dragged him on the roads,
The father of the
lanka prince,
Oh magic who even ordered Veena to obey you,
Using your fingers
Your sister’s nose , ear and busts was cut ,
By a silly persons
sword,
Another villain encouraged him,
It seems his aim of arrow will never fail,
With pride that
silly one is talking
Is this place being ruled by a or by a man,
By caste we are
Rakshasa, how can a silly man oppose us?
After loosing my limbs I am crying “Oh brother, Oh
brother”
I am shouting , prattling, Oh my siblings, did you not
here my shout,
Will you not help me?
Shouting like this that Surpanaka who lost her nose,
Went and hid herself in the forest.
7.Khara
Kekasi was the
mother who gave birth to
Ravana , the king
of Sri Lanka
Kekasi’s sister
was Khumbeesi,
The one born to Khumbeesi
is Khara,
He has been given endless boons by Lord Shiva
In Dandakaranya
there is a Janasthana,
The entire Janasthana
was under control of Khara,
Though he had elephant army, horse army and such thousand
armies,
His victory
depended on Asura Army,
Which will not cross the line he draws,
They were sixty lakhs in number,
All of them greatly
valorous
Khara has heard
the word , “defeat”,
But has never seen
it, in this great world,
There was no country, which did not shiver on seeing him,
Because he had a
boon of Lord shiva, there was
never a problem for him,
Even if he opened his mouth , he will vomit fire
through his mouth,
Even if he opened his broad eyes, even the wind god will find it difficult to breath
He can even lick the moon by his long toungue
Even if asked to talk him ,
even the god of death will stammer
Trisira was
brother of Khara, he had three heads,
Each of them was a world, all the time it will be a collection of fire
Thoodana-was another
brother of Khara,
He was another burning fire,Even devas will be scared,
To come before all the three of them,
Even if they come , they
will beg for mercy
With pots and pots
of blood flowing from her,
Surpanakha came running
and fell at the feet of her
cousin brother,
Cried loudly and also
spilled the blood flowing out of her
Seeing her sad
look ,Khara was jittered
Oh dear sir, who did this cruelty to you,
Was it done by devas or
the people of Rakshasa tribe,
Asked Khara who became frozen and after
he regained his senses
She said
“Elder brother, the person who cut off my limbs is not a
deva ,
Nor asura, two men, Two men who are in sagely form
Hearing his
younger sister ,Rakshasa said “Bad, bad”
Did the lady elephant
get wounded by the bite of the lice,
He was not able to understand this illusion,
How can Himalaya get
damaged by sting of a fly?
I am not willing to accept this reasoning.
Was it a man who
insulted you? When did an earth worm take the form of a snake?
Sister , tell the
truth, Did I cut your nose and ear
or the god of death who came in form of a man?
Surpanakha explained to Khara in a summary fashion,
I saw to human heros in Pancavati, they are the sons of
Dasaratha
They carry the bow
which never miss its aim on their
shoulders,
And carry
words which never go against the truth in their toungue,
They both had a body, which even god of love , will fall
in love,
But they have put on
the form of a saint, I wondered seeing with them a pretty damsel,
I wondered at her, as she cannot be compared to several thousand flowers.
She is pretty Goddess
who can be worshipped,
The breeze will stop and watch her walking style,
I wanted to give
such a pretty lady as a gift,
To our elder brother, the king of Lanka,
And I made a trick
for that.The one who was guarding,
Took his knife and cut off my nose, ears and busts
He who was called the brother gave me this punishment and,
His elder brother roared
that he will finish of the clan of Rakshasa.
Hearing the word of his sister Khara burst like a bamboo ,
Which has caught
fire, He bit his teeth and made sound,
And told his commander in chief who was standing near by,
“Move and bring my chariot, let us do the war, Ordered he ,
Like his emotion flowing like water
Commander put a
stop for that
“oh great king, where
is your need to kill,
Two human beings in saintly form? If you start,
For such things , what is the need of people like me
Is a cyclone neded
to put off a lamp? Order me,
We will go and kill him.”
He agreed with the
commander and felt that if he went,
To fight with men, earth will laugh , heaven will laugh,
The shoulders
which have grown big will laugh,
The sword in his hand
will laugh and decided to change his thought
The way to go was shown by Surpanakha , and fourteen ,
Well armed soldiers started and as soon they went,
They fell in the
hold of death
Yes those fourteen people were made the food,
For his bow within
fourteen seconds,
He made arrows tinged
in colour of blood
RAkshasi Surpanakha seeing the pure valorous soldiers,
Returning as dead
soldiers was scared.
She wondered about
clever nature of the Raghu clan,
The arrows which
have to obey the bow were ,
Obeying his command, Like a slave they were
working for him
If he say throw
fire and sent them, they were throwing fire,
If he said Cut and sent
, they cut of the heads
When the news was told by
Surpanakha ,
Khara was not able
to believe it and he was shattered,
His fame which was nurtured for a long time became small
Unable to believe
that the soldiers who could
grind two hundred elephants
By the thumb of their left feet, were killed in the
battle field by a man
Using one arrow, Khara was shattered, his fame which had
grown,
For a long time
became short
His anger hid his wisdom,
His pride
started his decline,
His eyes spit out
huge smoke,
His mind sank
in river of fire,
Taking Trisira and thoodana for help
Accompanied by a great army,
With his past fate
walking in front of him,
He got in to his coloured chariot and,
He got in to his coloured chariot and,
God of death
climbed on his buffalo steed.
Understanding that Khara is coming to fight a war with him,
Rama called Lakshmana and asked him to take
Vaidehi elsewhere,
And told him to leave him alone to oppose
Khara
Without telling
any reply, Lakshmana took mother
Maithili ,
Towards a mountain
cave,
Had brother
ordered him “Take your bow, he felt , he alone,
Could take away
the life of Khara,
Rakshasi Surpanakha
showed Rama who was standing
alone,
As “He is the person” to Khara, who was surrounded by an
army
He sarcastically laughed”did I collect this huge army to
kill this one person,
I am mad” and he was advised by his minister an asura called
Akambana
Oh king, when we are surrounded on all sides by an
army , if the opponent,
Stands alone, judging him
as nothing is ignorance, it is wise to
conclude that he
Alone is more capable, the omens are not favorable to us
now,
Please hear what I say, start the war along with your
brothers ,
Do not start it alone
First Trisira got in to the fight, unable to oppose
Dasaradhi , he staggered
With one arrow Rama took away two of his three heads, Trisira fought,
With just one head, at the end Rama cut off that
head also, that liar,
Got freedom from
this birth
Next Thoodana fought
with Dasaradhi, he also met with his fate
When his brothers died Khara became very fierce, he attacked Rama ,
In a great manner-he who was son of Gumbeesi
The war went on for some time, the blood went out for a
long distance,
The one who is of colour of sea went on sending arrows
after arrows,
Sorpanaka’s elder brother
powdered all of them,
The god who could destroy sin,
Went to the top.
In anger he kept an arrow in kodanda, the bow of
Darasadha rama,
And pulled it till his shoulders, his bow broke,
Rama stood unarmed, he took his golden arm to his back
Varuna who has kept safely the bow he has
taken from parasurama
Gave It to the hand
of our lord
Rama took the bow, sent an arrow using it and cut off the head of Khara
He died and devas became happy
To tell the news Surpanakha ran to sri Lanka for in her mind,
The enmity to Rama
was still there
8.Ravana
Pullasthya was a son of Brahma, Visrwas was son of Pulasthya,
Ravana was son of
Visrwas-he was a Brahmin
He had written all the four Vedas along
with meaning ,
And detailed commentary on his toungue,
He was great in knowledge also, He was great in love play also
Though he had ten
heads, all the passion he had was one sided,
Because though he had a palace, he loved the wives
of others
He will sing Sama Ghana
as well as Kama Ghana
He was one who controlled the elephants
of eight directions,
He controlled the seven horses of the sun god,
He controlled the six rules of the
ages,
He had not controlled his
five senses and because of it he was spoiled
He had left hand , right hand and twenty hands and ,
Within this twenty hands was Lanka,
it was he who tied Anklets of fame to it,
Before that time Lanka was owned by Khubera,
And because of it Khubera
became poor, Indra became a great coward,
It was as per orders of his little finger that sun and moon gave light
Thiothama would give him bath , oorvasi will dress him up,
Ramba will show him scented smoke, Menaka will sing songs for him
The beauties of the other world were his maids who
saluted him
The fire burnt only
when he told and the breeze
swept, sky rained,
Days changed.He was keeping account of time with him,
He also kept god of death in his bag
The boons given by
Brahma, served him and
Greeted him, Long live
He kept the Veena to be kept on lap on the flag post
He kept thity three
crore devas in his hold,
He kept the nine planets on the steps to climb to his
seat,
He was the one who had
uprooted the Kalisa mountain in a
second and kept it back
He had received
very many boons and same amount
of curses
There was once a girl called Veda valli, the daughter of
a sage,
Who was doing penance
to get Lord Narayana as her
husband,
She would not even drink a sip of water, When he went to
steal her virtue
“Oh silly fellow I will jump in fire today and in
later life , I will be born,
As god of death to you” she threw this curse on him, and
jumped in to fire,
Brahma had cursed that if his finger touched a girl who did not like him,
His head will break in to pieces. He was that angry with
him
When he was uprooting
the mountain of Shiva.,
Nandi felt bad and
cursed him with all his heart
“Oh Raavana, you did monkey trick, and your pride ,
Would be powdered by
monkeys”
The curse of nandi
became true later
He tried to wag
his tail with Vali, he became object of jeer and looked bad
He treated men like animals and Karthaveerya who was a man,
Stamped on his
feet
The mansions and huge homes and towers in Lanka
were built by his father in law
He was the architect of
the devas a very trained one,That maya’s daughter Mandodhari,
Was his wife, the partner
of his domestic life
The godown for all his culture, the fruit
garden of all possible beauty
Her wedding garland enclosed all the twenty shoulders,
That poor ganges river got married to this dirty river,
It was her mangalya ,
That prolonged the life of this dirty river
Through the northern gate , like a northern fire,
Surpanaka entered the city, the entire city watched the beauty of her nose
Who is that valorous one who cut off her nose , wondered the entire city?
Everywhere there
was commotion, wondering who did this dirty act?
He was the younger sister of their lord, his dear eldest lady,
When she entered the capital of Lanka, with disheveled
hair
Fearing to show their head before her all the heads
of the city ran away,
They all closed the main door of their homes,
Seeing her entering like a cyclone, the street moved
away,
Every where
there was fear
The big Rakshasi who was not invited by the street,
Was invited by
the fate of Ravana, was it not,
Observing ritual
all this time, waiting for
her arrival
As soon as she was seen, in limitless joy, the fate of
the king od Lanka,
Spread a red carpet
and saying “Come come” invited
her,
The writing which will not change , even if he walks
upside down,
All people stood
and respected her and just then king Ravana,
Came and sat on his throne in the royal hall,
When his sister ran crying loudly and fell on his feet ,
The one who was
born to rule shook
He saw that the nose
and ears of his sister was cut,
He raised all his
twenty eye brows,
All his forty eyes lids beat with each other,
His nerves
tightened, all his twenty hands,
Were eager to
take revenge immediately
“Who did this cruelty to you?How did he stay alive after this?
He asked and he fondled his ten moustaches by his left hand
Surpanaka told
with her tears continuously dropping
“Two men living in the forest, both are two luster of gems,
I went near them, they burnt like fire and cut off my nose and ears,
When Surpanaka completed , just like dropping of sea shells,
The king of Lanka
laughed
“Did two men had this
fever towards an Asura maiden?
How can clams have
the flight of four legs?”
When brother told
like this , Surpanaka clarified his doubt
“Oh elder brother, those
two men are very valorous,
They were two courageous
ones having a broad chest,
The sons of king
Dasaratha, the jasmines flowered in
garden of Dharma,
If they bent their bow and keep arrows
on them , there is no limit,
They have come to dandaka forest to protect words of
their father,
They are two lotus flowers who walked on stones and
thorns,
They do not
respect you, they do not pray
your clan,
The pure ones who stand on the side of the saints,
They have
challenged that they will destroy us”
Hearing the news from his sister, the brother became angry,
One second he took bath
in a fire pond
Later after heat
reduced, he asked Soopanaka
“Does Khara our
loving brother who rules in the forest know the news?
Had he known, would not he burnt them by blowing by his mouth?”
After a laugh of
disappointment , Supanaka clarified
“I told them about news of my nose cutting to Khara and
Trishira,
What is the use of their getting boon from Lord Brahma?
They were
defeated by the men.”
They went themselves
and they went to heaven”
Hearing the loss of his younger ones, the twenty
armed one was shattered
Still he talked naturally
“Why did they make fun of you? Why did they cut your
pretty nose,
By their sword”
For question of Ravana, his younger one answered,
“Brother, they wear
the hide of a tree, eat roots and fruits,
But with them is an artistic sweet
bird.
Why do saints need girls?, Why eyes for coconut?,
For her staying
with them, I had measureless sorrow,
Because such a
beauty is only suitable to you,
The elder one pardoned me
but his younger brother,
Cut using his
knife.”
When the younger one told like this, the anger of
Ravana was reduced,
The longing for
that girl filled his mind,
His sister knew
about it by the signs of his face,
To increase the itch of the mind of her brother more,
She used her word nails
and scratched.
“Oh brother , Her name is Sita, she is pretty flower,
Her eyes show the path of happiness,
The intoxication she
gives does not grow in nectar
The moon has never seen a lady like her.
Due to her pain of males
will start,
They will send message
through the swan,
You start your gambling
to get her,
In that who is
more efficient than you.”
Surpanaka showed Sita
before her brother, no , no,
Telling name of Sita, she showed him his funeral pyre
After sending away his sister the king of Lanka came to his terrace,
And then he called
the Garden breeze” who was
working under him ,
And said “blow”,
And the breeze which came running, removed the salt sweat
from ,
The body of one
who came to the terrace
But there was heat in the
breeze that wafted
Hating it , he shouted “stop” and then he fell,
On the bed filled
with flowers
The thought of Sita, like a borer bee , burrowed ,
In to his thought and his mind broke in to hundred pieces
While all other
devas were defeated by him ,
He got defeated by the Manmatha deva
He who has received
the tusks of elephant on his chest,
Unable to get the arrows of Manmatha struggled
HE struggled by
hugging and rolling with lord of
Rathi
The arrows of passion, drilled in to his
body like sieves,
He suffered
He bit his three
hundred and twenty teeth and made sound
All the night he thought about going to Panchavati and imprison,
The five coloured bird,
After thinking and thinking till early morning, his mind
got tired,
Suddenly the thought of
his maternal uncle Maarecha
raised in his mind
9.Mareecha
Mareecha was son of Thadaga, the uncle of ten headed one,
This Mareecha was
earlier an evil one, but now he loved Vedas,
He was the servant of God
During that time
by doing evil , he had suffered
But now he understood penance and had touched Lord Shiva
He was the bad
asura who spoiled the yaga of
Viswamithra
And later when driven arrow of Rama, he was an Asura who
woke up and became good
Time ripened him
The feeling of remorse made him bent his head,
During those days
, by clan and mind he was a Rakshasa
But now he was Rakshasa
only due to clan
By mind he was a great
man
He who came
with arrow in his hand to fight in Sidhashrama,
He had become a Shudha Chaithanya, which cannot be
wounded by any word
Mareecha found out and so he changed from bad path
to the good
Will fate allow
him to stand like that?
It flew through
the sky and got down before his door
The one who came in a place to Change
Mareecha in to a bad one
Is the evil one
who used to say , “no one is equal to me”
He was the one with flag of Veena and saluted by
heaven and earth
The uncle Mareecha
invited his nephew Ravana,
By extending both his hands and showing a sweet face
Mareecha asked
“What is the matter please?”
King of Lanka explained “Oh uncle, two men along,
With a very sweet and young girl called Sita,
Have come to this
forest, Name of one of them is Rama,
And the other is Lakshmana,
They have hurt my
sister making her cry loudly,
They have cut her nose and ears using their had sword,
In summary they
have buried our respectability deep in the pit
And not only that
uncle,
The Khara of
Dandakavana and his brothers,
Were killed by them by sending arrows like rain,
With drums and drums
of their blood pouring out,
They have told
there is none in the Asura clan to
ask “how”
Will a small stick
win over a spear,
Can a small
insect kill the hawk
When devas
are lying with folded
hands below our legs,
What can
these humans do to us
When sun and moon
obey what we say,
How can these two men cause darkness in our life?
I am one who takes
sword for the war,
If I take it for just two humans,
It is an insult
to my name,
It is an insult to chariot I travel
And so I have to take away that pretty girl,
Who is Sita , the
gold of highest purity,
Who is with those
two men,
Their honor should lie
face down
Oh uncle , for
this I need your magical skills,
In your magic that
girl will be deceived
Hearing this long talk
of his nephew,
The mind of Mareecha
was hurt and he told him,
Straight , what
came in his mind
“Oh Ravana , my
sweet nephew,
You are the king of Lanka,
Expert in great
music, he who knows four Vedas
I am also your
servant,
Should you loose all your fame in a second?
Should you wipe away the thilaka,
That you kept on
the forehead of Lanka,
Your sister has
dug a burial pit for you,
To avenge Sita, she is kindled the passion in you,
Sita, if you think
that she is just a girl , you are mad,
She is your bad time which has come
to this world,
Keeping some flowers
on her head and a thilaka on
forehead
She is the bad fate
who has come to burn island of
Lanka,
That pure one , is
the mother of the world,,
She is a disease
to your soul
Ravana , whom do
you think Rama is?
He is Vishnu saluted
by Lord Brahma,
She is the
Madhava saluted by sun God,
She is Narayana who spreads the ocean
of books,
He is the
complete one who lives in the ocean of
milk.
He is the one who
came to protect the sages who carry Dhurbha,
As the child who
carried the womb of Kausalya,
So he is an
incarnation, Mother Sita is his wife,
If you desire her
, it is the greatest possible crime,
You are being hospitable
to your own death
That day , the arrow he sent , chased me,
And that reformed
me, please hear,
The words of one
who corrected himself after hurt,
After hearing it, leave
out your bad thoughts.
Your wife is
Mandodhari,
Any one else’s wife
is your sister,
You keep this in your mind or keep this uncle
I will not show magic , I will not fall in the net of sin
This way when Mareecha told an idea,
Which was not
pleasing to Ravana,
He got angry, he warned his uncle
“Oh uncle with a
bad brain, You are teaching me,
That insect like
man is an incarnation,
You are
telling , what some body has told you
like a parrot,
As you are scared
He is one who killed your mother and younger brother,
Without tearing his mouth , you are arguing with me,
You are a sign of
insult to the clan of asuras,
Agathi leaf is the
food of cows, will tigers eat it,
Do not make a tiger
as vegetarian,
Do not make a rat
like Rama in to a God
You do and
finish the job ordered by me,
If you are not interested die by my sword
After keeping silent for some time Mareecha told
“You are telling
about greatness of king’s clan,
You are calling
me as a symbol of insult,
If it is so, take your sword and kill that Rama in the
battle field,
And later take
Sita in to your prison.”
After smiling ,
the husband of Mandodhari replied to Mareecha,
“If I take my sword a kill Rama,
The Sita with eyes
like Kajal sword also will die,
She will go to
heaven along with her husband”
What profit do I get out of that?
What will happen
to my passion?
I should steal
that lady through deceit
Hear what I say and you
have to obey it a little
The honest
Mareecha thought for a little,
In spite of Ravana
having twenty eyes ,
He was not able to see
bad times coming to him,
This was fate,
He then asked Ravana “What should I do”
And the king replied
“Oh uncle, you should change yourself in to a golden
deer,
Manikhya, emerald, pearls, rathna , diamond and Vaidoorya,
Coral and
pushparaga, should shine in your
coloured body in circles,
Sita seeing your beauty of the front and back ,by fate,
Should desire to
make you hers
She should ask her husband and brother in law,
“Catch that deer
and give it to me, The silly one who
does not know our plan
Without getting in to their hand you keep on running fast,
I will carry Sita
who will be alone along with her hermitage,
Mareecha because
there is no other way, started taking the form of the deer,
By another route Ravana
went to their hermitage
Sita was plucking flowers
in the trees near the hermitage,
And she was
smiling like flowers
Seeing the lady
plucking flowers, the flower like breeze freezed
It wanted to tell this news to other species of flowers
The lady was searching
and plucking flowers pouring
honey
The lady who garlanded
to one who is the colour of flower
Then near her , a golden deer jumped like a flower ball
A golden deer,This golden deer did not understand ,
That golden deer
was a deer of lie, and her eyes,
Did not go away from the golden deer
He who was seeing his golden deer in his eye,
Kept his eye on
that deer, because,
Janaka’s deer was attracted by the shine of golden deer ,
And was standing freezed
That magical deer
robbed the mind of her who was plucking flowers,
And by fate The pure deer
fell in net spread by the
magical deer,
To the wife of Rama
who had come to save the humanity,
A great desire for that deer was born.
And that desire started
the turn of events,
To the liking
of men and devas
Sita called Sri
Rama and showed him the golden deer,
She very badly
wanted and told him “Cach and give it to me”
When that young deer keeping two deers in its eye told like this,
Rama stood
staring at that deer of lie, He said,
“I have never seen any deer like this”
Lakshmana
told in the middle to Rama,
“This pretty deer is b not a deer which will love us.
How can I tell this
to elder sister in law?Oh lord,
You are the lord of the clan of the Sun, The lord
Who grants
blessings to every body,
The educator who
educates to knowledge,
The wise man who advises
the wise
What is the true
deer and
what is the shadow deer,
Do you who is my
lord , not know?
This deer is which out of the two-don’t you understand?
Brother , this is
like our shadow, one who follows like
the asuras?
Did we not stand
guard to the Yaga of Viswamithra?
At the time an asura
escaped from our arrows and ran away?
I feel it is that
Mareecha
Yes brother , Mareecha is this false deer, this deer is the uncle of Ravana?
What I say may not
be liked by my Sister in law, Even if it
is,
Even if she does not like it, we can choose not to catch
the false deer,
That is the proper
thing,Ofourse , it is for you to decide.”
When Lakshmana told this, Rama Saw Sita
and by his coloured eyes,
Asked What we should do ?
Sita felt that
if they enter in to argument, that gold deer will run away,
And then you deer
will become sad,, She was adamant like a
small baby.
Then Rama
explained to Lakshmana,
“If it is true deer, I will bring , if not
I will kill it.
Sita is very anxious to get it, You be her guard.
I will end your confusion .Wait slightly”
Rama went to catch
the gold deer along with his bow,
Mareecha ,
did not fall in his hold and started to
show his magical tricks.
10.Hey Sita , Hey
Lakshmana
During those days carrying the sea , he was lying on the sea,
Today carrying the bow he was walking on the earth,
When the Vedas
were staying , unable to catch him,
He stood confused
unable to catch the deer
The husband will get
what wife desires and give it to her,
Thinking like this Sita asked her husband to catch the deer and give it to him
She did not agree
when her brother in law told “I will catch it and give”
With love she scolded
her husband and said, “Oh , Is it
mot possible to you?,
And she tied the knot for
her neck herself
Though Rama ran on stones and thorns with them piercing
his feet,
He could not get
at the golden deer,
That deer did not stand in the same place even for a second
Only deer will be deceived by the mirage ,
But here the deer
himself became the mirage and deceived
Rama will touch, it will come jumping saying let him touch,
And when goes to touch
, just like he has touched,
It will go far
away and stand there
The trick which can make all the tricks
He who is beyond all, He who is pervaded by divinity
The magic which is beyond all magic,
Was drowned in great wonder,
Which made his
body shiver,
By the magic
shown by that golden deer
Brother told me then,
this is not deer but Mareecha
The lord now
agreed with it,
He took his bow and sent an arrow, aimed at the sinner,
He took away its
soul, the soul bird which was born as
Mareecha
Fell on the earth
feeling ”My god this birth is sufficient”
And rose to go
over to the top”
At the time of death Mareecha shouted
in the voice of Rama,
“Hey Sita, Hey Lakshmana”
When he shouted
like that , the ghost who hearing the
words of queen of ghosts,
Who came to snatch
away the wife of other,
Sprayed the rice for the mouth of death now itself
Hearing wailing
call of help of her life like husband,
Wrenched her heart
like a wet sari and from there hot water
came out
“Did the magical deer
stole her Mangalya”
Thinking like this
the honest deer was greatly shattered,
She touched her flowers and thilaka and left a deep breath
As if black magic entered
her lungs, she struggled to
breath,
The baby of worry
getting shapes in both her eyes,
Just like a not properly
grown child, weathered and
thinned
That lady lotus who was like bell metal , she faded
When mother Janaki
had a confused faint,
Lakshmana stood there
without any confusion
“Alas , Lakshmana
, even hearing the cry for help ,
Of our lord who is
in danger, After it sprayed fire in our
hearts,
Are you standing like a statue holding the bow,
Should be called
the Dharama of the royal caste
You stop protecting me now but protect my gold,
Save the flowers
decorating my hair, Save my king
Who tied the flower to me, Run immediately,
Sita Spoke with
great fear to Lakshmana
“Oh mother, leave out this fear, The cry for help ,
That we heard is
not real but false,
The asura tribe is like this, it shows frequently this magic
Later struck it
will fall completely uprooted
Oh Mother, who can cause
danger to our lord
Because for
everything he is the primeval seed
Everything that is born is born from him
Those which take birth , grow and die and do so to join him
For all the beings, the breath they take in , the talk of
the inner toungue
Are the alms that
he has given to them
Creation, nurture and destruction-he has great liking to
do these,
To such a great magician, where from problem will come,
He is a flame that keeps on burning without oil and wick
If that flame can be put out, The globe will burst and break in to pieces,
Humans will loose
their body and become dead body,
The Vedas could
start silly things, Everything will hide godliness and
The usual life will
get spoiled
The moon in the sky, the shining sun, will fall on the earth and break
The entire world
would be swallowed by a deluge
That is why I am
telling, Please put out your flaming
worries
To our lord danger
will never come at any time, If
it comes,
All the fourteen worlds
would be destroyed
The advice of the younger lord was received in one ear,
And left out by
Sita and she burnt Lakshmana by flaming words
“Oh Lakshmana, I now know your attitude of not having ,
Even an iota of
affection towards , your elder brother,
I understood what is your aim also.
You who after
hearing the wail of your brother for help,
Did not run to help , Are real brother to him,
All my brother in law’s are cheats,
Telling that it is a net of affection, they will weave a
net of deceit
They bother about themselves only, They are fools,
Bharatha who was
born to his step mother,
Sitting in his
grandapas house, spied in Ayodhya
And stole the crown and
slippers of his elder brother,
And he acted as if he was
a very honest person
Lakshmana are you
not also son of his step mother,
Some how I forgot to make my husband realize this
One brother
thought , if brother goes away,
He can have his country
and another thinks,
If brother goes , he can have his wife
Alas , what a bad
thing is this?
Oh Lakshmana , who does not have sense of shame,
If this second you
do not go and save your brother,
I will fall in
the forest fire and give myself up,
And I will become
a bad name to you for all times
to come
Poor Sita, who had kept her husband in her heart,
Had also kept her
fate on her toungue
The bad words of
mother like Sita to him,
Took him to the top of the sorrow,
It melted steel
and poured in his ears,
The darling son of sumithra was fully
shattered
All his hairs stood straight and by bending he became a dwarf
The very innocent with a
pure mind, felt that all the blood,
In his nerves
solidified and his body became
heavy
With Godhavari , the river near by run in his sad eyes,
And with folded hands, he saw the wife
of Pattabhirama and spoke
“Oh Mother, witness of devas, witness of gods of forests
Witness of trinity of Gods , sages
and the three worlds,
I am one who thinks my elder brother’s wife as my mother,
I am one who
prays to my elder brother like father
Such an accusations
against me?
Hm oh mother
this is the way of fate
Yes,
I will leave you alone and go in search of my Brother,
I would be going
against the words of my brother,
Let Jatayu who is
like father and who lives in this forest protect you.
11.Sita was imprisoned
Lakshmana went
away from the grass hut,
The king of Lanka came near the grass hut
Ravana who used
to get joy by embracing teenagers,
Today
embraced the elder one
The poem of older age, without any sorrow,
Line by line he
wrote over all the body
From his chin beard fell
like coconut milk.
His external skin had dried and was like a centipede
touched by the finger
Ravana came is a
very aged saint,
But he kept his
mind youthful
He had made his
twenty hands to two, he held ,
Water pot in one hand and three way staff
in the other
He changed his
twenty eyes to two, having light of love,
In one, and light
of wisdom in the other.
He wore ochre
cloths, and name of Shiva on his toungue,
He came and stood before the hut where Sita stayed,
And Loudly asked
“Who is there inside?”
With his three branch staff he fondled
his beard
Though the bad news about her husband was digging in her
mind,
Thinking that it
is correct ritual to worship ,
The guest who came
in search of her home,
To the aged sage
she told inviting words and invited,
Gave him a seat made of Bamboo and asked to take his seat,
And she did all
needed hospitality to the guest
Ravana saw, Sita the very pretty picture
, with his eyes,
And told thanks to
Surpanaka from here it self
For identifying
this great beauty
The one who came as the imposter saint
asked the golden Lakshmi
Whose is this hut? What
is his name?
While asking he
thought over some very base thoughts in his mind
The blessed one with beauty and virtue
answered
“The son of Dasaratha who has been praised by all human kings always,
Obeying his step
mother, he has come here to live in the forest,
And has given meaning to his father’s words , I am Janaki,
The daughter of king Janaka
Then the wife of the son of Dasarata asked,
“In this age with inability, where from are you coming?
Where do you intend to go?”
Like this she asked with humility
The golden queen who has
come to earth as the girl
That king of
southern Lanka threw a faultless,
Look of passion at her, and then like a just saint,
Spoke a few
sentences
“Earlier I used to
be a sage in this forest,
And later I uprooted myself to Lanka,
He, who has touched the tall sky by my Veena flag,
Who carried Kailasa mountain on his shoulders,,
Who ordered the
devas and made them do whatever he ordered,
In his beauty ,he is the
god of love, and has broken the pride of others,
Below the shade of
such a king of Lanka , I am staying
Ha ha, the love of Ravana is the rare
honey that I got
I came here to
meet the sage with whom I moved”
After hearing
what Ravana said, the wife of Rama said
“Alas, should great saints like you,
Live
believing the fire of Yaga or
Live believing the shade of great asuras,
Should Yaga be done in fire of cremation,
Should love be woven in the machine of passion?”
When Sita asked with wonder like this
The king who rules
Lanka replied
“ lady, Asuras are
not as dangerous as devas,
Also because the
entire world is in their control,
Where else shall I
go?” he answered
The lotus eyed one
gave him proper reply
“Oh sir, leave out
the fear about the asuras,
Be peaceful, My king of kings, who lives in my mind,
Would uproot the clans
of Asuras before this stay in forest is over,
The black coloured one who stands guard the turmeric that
I apply,
He who sunk
Khara in the flood of blood, He will ,
one day,
Cut the head of the ten headed one without any doubt,,
He would shower
cool grace for removing the evil ,
Troubling those who do great penance”
Hearing these sweet words of Sita, Ravana got angry,
But without showing it
he further told Vaidehi
“Oh innocent girl, Will
granite blocks split because of
picking by a crow,
Will the upper sky break because the clouds his them
When can paddy
become sword?
When will enemies get cut
and become powder,
Ravana does not
have death by Humans,
You the bird’s wing does not know the power of his shoulders and thighs”
Hearing the words
of the king of Lanka , Sita got irritated,
With her eyes
turning red she said
“Karthaveeryarjuna
the man kept king of Lanka ,
Who has shoulders like
this in prison,
Parasurama within a second killed that Karthaveerya by
his axe
My lord Sri Rama , took the bow of Parasurama and sent an
arrow,
Before that rama, Ravana
who has only a form of passion,
Would stand like a
lamp before sun.,
And at the end he
will also rot before him”
When Sita
talked with challenge,
With his self respect getting wounded,
Got anger which
can not be described,
Thinking of showing
him , removing his present skin,
He stood before
her in his real form
Seeing that
Vaidehi was greatly scared.
She got in to the
fist of fear
The king of southern Lanka consoled her
He showed her ,
the pain of love he was suffering for
her
“Oh lady who made me poor, why are you shivering.
Oh lady who made me a coward, why are you going back?
I stand wondering by seeing your eye brow, and ,
Seeing my form you , you stand scared”
The body which you are seeing , is what you left after eating
Only the heart
which is left off after your
killing has come here,
I have won over the sky, I have won over the earth,
How can I win you
also?
Where else can I tell the news that I have been
defeated by you, except yourself?
Thinking about you
, I have lost my sleep,
That sleep is not kind to me, even if I loose my ten
heads,
I will not change the love that I have for you.
Whatever sufferings may come to me , I will not,
Take away my twenty eyes
away from you
Accept me and light
, my lamp of h joy
Hearing these words of the ten necked one,
The wife of Sri Rama
, shut both her ears by her hand
That head of great
poems, who surprised all the poets of the world,
Who even if she happens to live in a smaller hut would not change
her virtue
Spit on Ravana ,
Words of
saliva
Should we keep the
offering for devas offered in fire,
Raised by hitting stone with stone,
To the dog who eats its food licking and licking,
Your desiring me
is evil, run away,
If not you will not be there,
Vaidehi scolded the clan of Asuras,
She showered rain
of scolds on that Rakshasa,
And he thinking
that waiting for a long time is
not good,
Neared Sita, to carry her
on his big shoulders
But then he
recalled the curse of Brahma ,
That if he touches
a lgirl who does not like him,
His heads will burst , and so he uprooted the hermitage ,
Along with Sita and kept it on his flower chariot,
And shouted his charioteer to return by the way he came
The beauty called
sita was imprisoned,
Carrying her the
flower chariot also started,
The rules of
Dharma seeing that became sad
And island of Lanka
got scared and said “Alas, Alas”
12. The king of Hawks
Lord Shiva lifted fire by
the eye on his forehead,
Ravana is the one who
lifted his home by his long hands
To this Ravana,
Who can say “What you are
taking is not the moon but fire”
If the five letters
of the name Ravana are seen by eyes,
Or heard by their ears the five elements
,
Water, air, sky, fire and earth will get scared
And that is with
pride and false courage ,
Thinking who can come and stand before me and stop me
The virtue who
will teach virtue to
virtue itself,
The dharma which will
tech Dharma to Dharma himself,
The fire who will shed
fire from her blue eyes,
Was taken by his long hands and kept on the plane,
And the king of Lanka got in to its edge
Flying in the sky and two things travelled
with wet hands
One was his plane
and another respectability of
Lanka
The divinity sitting in the chariot cried and both her cheeks,
Were ploughed by her
tears
Sorrowing for asking
the golden deer and loosing her husband,
It folded it hands and saluted,
Wiping away the water curtain hiding her eyes by her pointer fingers,
Vaidehi saw Dandakaranya,
Godavari which was like lines drawn
there,
The top trees
which were like mushrooms,
The hills looking like
anthills,
And over them sages
living in the forest,
The forest streams looking like
Kaupeenas put for drying,
Which wave in the year
And Sita who was sitting on the top felt that ,
Entire
Dandakaranya was sorrowing,
In the place where
clouds sat over the forest, sorrow was sitting
Seeing Vaidehi being lifted by the hands of the fate,
The elephants lifted their trunks
and boomed
Due to deceit winning over justice and dharma
Just like they had
wounds made of fire,
The lions got angry, and scratched the earth by their
, hind legs,
And beat the earth by their front legs
Birds beat themselves
with their wing like hands
And fell down
Instead of milk coming
in teats of the cows, blood came
Only deer stood
bending their heads, because they
felt,
They lost their
respectability due to Mareecha
From the sky itself she requested the trees,
And beasts of the
forest
Maithili is a pretty bird
which was inside nest of King of
Lanka
OH animals
without any reservations,
Oh trees which never
became fire wood
I am one who ordered my husband who came holding my arms,
To catch a lie,
Please tell that I
am in extremely bad state and am in
prison
To the lord who held my right hand and gave me
life
Did she not complain about your conduct, she is now
imprisoned,
Your sister in
law who told needless blame about you,
To my brother in law who salutes me as his mother
Like this when the
great wife sita cried and saluted,
It was heard by
the king of hawks and he spread,
His wings which
were like elephant ears and rose
in the sky,
And the bird came in between, the charioteer stopped the chariot,
Immediately Ravana of
ten heads, kept arrows in his bow
Before starting the war
, Jatayu started advising him,
“Oh Ravana , what job are
you doing,
Why are you cutting off your heads by your own hands
You are the one who robbed the kingdom of Khubera , the king of Alakapuri
You are the one who robbed the power of Indra , the king of amaravathi
Should that courageous hero, steal the wife of another and show his valour,
Thinking that you
are a poet of love, should you write the
poem of your death
Carefully take the
fire like wife , whom you have
brought with her home,
And keep it in the same place carefully,
If you do not do it, you
will loose your life and
welcome your death
Your wife will loose
the flower in her hair
The lady whom you
are taking imprisoned is not Sita-she is the mother of the
world,
The husband of this queen among ladies,
Is the gray one hiding himself among the four Vedas
If you are angry
with that Kodanda rama,
You should have taken your sword and waged a war,
The coward who
dare not do that,
The animal who does not have horns to push,
Where is need of arrows to you,
Why cloths on your hips?
Darling sita is an eye like daughter to me,
The dust of her feet is more famous than your crown
I will not allow you to kidnap my daughter,
Should you do
such very bad actions,
I have told all this advice and asking you,
If you are not willing
to obey my advice ,
Take your bow, Even if you stand
upside down,
Your chariot
will not cross this boundary
Jatayu stood
before him and told him proper aedvice,
That king of the island standing on the chariot in the
sky,
Send harsh arrows on the king of his toungue,
Jatayu prevented
all of them by his huge wings without difficulty
And then with his long beak, he scratched the long body
and,
Ravana’s body was covered with blood, but his body got cured immediately
The king of hawaks
with surprise, attacked him
severely,
He made the ten
crowns of Ravana fall from his head,
He flew above the chariot and by his beak
tore ,
The Veena flag
which was flying on its top,
He made is as a
flag which cannot be recognized
The angry , king of Lanka, changed like the god of death,
He sent fourteen arrows on the body
of the bird
The king of birds with
blood flowing out of his body struggled,
In spite of that
he spun like a top
By his sharp claws
he cut off the ear globes of the king,
He tore of his
chest armour also
Ravana became more angry, he held the silver handle in his
hand,
He who has been
hit deeply by the tusks
of elephants,
Had a very angry
look, he sent hundred arrows on Jadayu,
Jadayu shook his wings so that all the hundred arrows fell down,
Then the king of
birds snatched the bow of Ravana
and he broke,
Them using his feet,
The king who lost
his bow, threw the spear , Jadayu
stopped it ,
And on Ravana’s ten faces
he painted insult
Then he bit off the head
of the charioteer and threw it,
On the face of
Ravana,
The king of the island burnt in great fury
He took the Dandayudha
and using his maximum possible force,
He hit Jadayu, unable to bear it, loosing his strength,
Jadayu fell on the earth and struggled
Sita cried , Oh My father and hearing the cry,
Of his dear
daughter that father rose again
He then destroyed Ravana’s chariot as well as his horses,
And sweat flowed
from his body
Thinking this is the proper time, using the
Chandrahasa ,
Sword which he has got from Lord shiva, he cut off
the wings of Jadayu,
Then taking Sita who was born from earth along with the earth,
Flying on the sky, he
reached Lanka speedily
Ravana who reached Lanka kept Sita
imprisoned ,
In Asoka Vana surrounded
by rakshasis
He put a
stain to his fame earned
from a long time back
13.They started
The brother went
is search of his lord, and immediately,
He saw him
The brother seeing his lord without any wound, was not
surprised,
So there was no need to
rush , hug and shed tears of joy
Brother had
knowledge that his lord would notbe burnt by fire.
Drenched by water, Cannot
be swallowed by earth,
Sky will not trouble
and wind will not dry
He knew that one who was
born elder to him,
Was the primeval
God
But seeing younger brother, elder brother,
Started worrying, He shot of question arrows
Oh younger
brother, why did you come in search of me,
How can get deceived by the magic deer, Only you told me it is a lie deer,
Now how come you
moved away from my female deer?
Should you leave your sister in law alone in the forest
Should the glance of asuras fall on the nectar pot?
Oh Dear brother ,
why were
you in a hurry?,
How can you go against
word given to elder brother?
Like this Pattabhi
Rama wailed,
Lakshmana
clarified
Only Sister in law
drove me away saying it is danger to
you,
If I do not go and
delay further she thratened she will jump in the fire,
She blamed me and
Bharatha as evil,
In my both ears,
oh god, she melted lead and poured
Brother ,
since there was no other way , I left her and came
I came greatly
worried as to what is right,
When Lakshmana told like
this ,
Raghava told
slowly
Younger brother, when you told
about illusion of asuras,
I did not bother,The deer whom I garlanded
also did not bother,
Without hearing you, I took my bow and after ,
A bad thing comes , there is no point in worrying,
Come we will rush to our hermitage
And with great speed Rama walked,
He was followed by his younger brother
When the king who holds the bow and his younger brother,
Who followed his
words came and saw,
The place where their hermitage was there was a pit,
The sign of it
being uprooted was visible,
Where s did the
hermitage which was there go?
Where did golden lady
who was there go?
Where has the leaf hut which was here gone,
Where has the
golden garland in it gone?
The question and
confusion did Yaga ,
In the mind of husband of Sita
The great one who
has never seen sorrow,
And Sorrow and shock defeated him
The anger caught
hold of his neck and pressed it
The tears
broke through his eye,
The head of son of
Dasaratha Spun
The bow held on his right hand rotated
The news that
his wife was not found,
Made the lord to slip and fall his bow
Sita was there in
my life and so,
There was no bent
down of my mind,
Sita has moved
away from me,
There is no success
for me
Thinking like
this the mind of Sitarama shivered,
The thousand named
one daily saluted by Vedas
When the lord
shivered , the earth shivered
The middle of the
queen of earth shivered,
Then the man of truth
shivered, the truth also shivered,
And the hand of those
who only told truth also shivered
Seeing the confusion
of elder brother,
The younger one told
“Brother , instead of
getting confused and sitting,
Let us see what
needs to be done,
Let us find out which asura kidnapped her
Oh Lord , what is
need of fear to Achyutha
For the human
incarnation where is need of worry,
Where is shadow to
the sun and to,
The pure man where
is confusion
If the archer
takes his bow,
Can the silly ones
stand before him,
For those who perform yaga of valour,
Would defeat ever happen,
Oh elder brother , let ius go in search of our
pure goddess
When Rama accepted the words of Rama’s brother,
Both of them walked
some distance and in the way,
They saw the marks of chariot wheels
THe lord who did not
have slippers and his sibling,
Followed that mark and later when the marks ,
Disappeared they
started thinking,
The younger one told
Brother from here the chariot ,
Would have climbed to the sky,
Other wise the
marks would have been there in the mud
It appears as if the chariot has gone to the south,
My inner guess
makes me feel that we too,
Should go to the
south
When Rama accepted
what his brother told,
With only thought
both of them,
Walked for
one Yojana distance
When they went further
,
They say the cut off
Veena flag,
The powdered long
bow,
The charioteer
whose head has split in to two,
The horses which
have died vomiting blood,
The misshapen Chariot and the fallen
Crown and the armour
Both of them saw all these and thought,
That big war might
have happened there
The dear brother told , Oh elder brother,
Only our very dear father Jatayu only has fought ,
For
protecting sister in law,
Standing alone,
using his sword like wings
He has
damaged the asuras things,
Damaged them and
made them fall here
When Rama accepted
what his brother told,
When both of
them went little more distance,
They saw Jatayu whose huge wings has been cut off
Shouting Oh My god, they hugged him
With tears falling, Rama wailed
“oh another father
whom we got,
Oh great one who told us
about,
Intimate friendship with
his long beak
Oh great one
who tried to stop the robber of
other’s wife,
The ghost like
person who cannot be stopped by others,
Has this bad fate
befallen you,
Has the fate of
Dharma turned upside down?
After wailing
like this , Rama fainted,
When Lakshmana sprayed
water, he woke up,
When the king of hawks
who was lying dead,
Asked them “What
happened?”
The younger one
told what happened
Then the king of birds spoke,” by going to catch the deer,
You have lost
your wife, You have done what
has been,
Fixed by your
fate,Ravana was the one who robbed your
wife
He is a very bad
one, though he has twenty eyes ,
he does not see light
I stopped him, He punished me with his Dandayudha, and then taking ,
The Godly sword, he cut off my wings,
I fell down on the earth and now opened my eyes to see
you,
And now I will get a home
in heaven
When the king of Hawks told like this
“Oh Father, which way did the asura go?
To answer Rama he opened
his mouth,
But before the
words came out he lost his life
Rama who could not cremate the father who gave birth to him,
But cremated this father
who did not give birth to him
And after doing
the water rites, He sent Jatayu ,
To Vaikunta as
Nithya Suri,
The sun walked towards
the west,
And Rama along
with his brother walked south
Next day morning came and the light got down on earth
Pattabhirama and his younger brother walked ,
Eighteen yojanas
with their leg paining,
They were made wet
from head to toe by the flow of sweat
The Agni Nakshatra
had started, and the heat of the summer,
Was very huge
The sun’s heat sat on their head, and made
their,
Green blood in to syrup
Throughout the body, without leaving any spot,
The heat wave of the forest, through the hair roots,
Sunk in to them
the heat wings
The elder and younger brothers took rest ,
Below a huge sleepy tree
and started from there and ,
Without their knowledge got in to the hands ,
Of a very
horrible Rakshasa called Kabanda
14.Kabanda
Kabanda, the most evil looking among all asuras,
He had become a surprise
being
He does not have head, but he is the head of all great sins
He did not have legs, but was the leg for all known cruelty
He had one eye on
his chest and each of the eye lid hairs
,
Had grown like
spears
Where he should have a stomach , he had a mouth and
That mouth had the great disease of insatiable hunger
He had two hands and they were very long and folded like python
All the living
things caught in between the hands will die,
He cannot move
but the city moved,
He will press with
his long hands, like this he will do
daily,
And he went
on reducing the number
of living beings
In this hold of
this devil , along with his brother ,
The chief of Vedas was
caught,
With defeating
mentality he told a few words
“Younger brother,our father died for our sake,
And he flew away
when I was not there
I am the eldest son to our father but I did not cremate him
But for your
sister in law , I do not have any one else,
And I do not have any chance of saving her
When she got imprisoned, I should have,
Climbed the funeral
pyre, but I did not do,
There was no chance
for doing that
Now it has happened, This devil is standing for my sake,
I will become his food and then I will go to our father,
You escape and go
back to Ayodhya,
Your elder brother is telling , go with desire
Like this when Rama
was prattling in a silly way,
His brother went
to the apexof sorrow, Later
Consoling himself, he opened his lips,
“Oh lord, I am one who
takes the words of my mother,
As Vedas and then I will
do penance on them
As per her words, my elder brother is my father,
Sister in law is my mother and the place ,
Where both of them
stay is ayodhya,
If I return to ayodhya , it will only be with you,
If you are not
able to save myself, I will die before you
In spite , oh Lord
who always merges with my mind
Should you who can take the entire earth
and swallow it,
Say that you are
going to be food this ghost,
Can a flying insect
eat a lamp,
Oh brother, order me, I will make him wail,,
Within half a second I will pull out his hands,
The lord who can make fall the entire world by his great arrow,
Regained
courage by words of his younger
brother,
He left off his helpless feeling
Kabanda woke up
deciding to swallow them together
Being cut down , he fell down,
Being cut down , he fell down,
Rama cut off the hands of Kabanda by his sword
As soon Rama’s
hand touched him,
Kabanda got rid of
his terrible curse,
Assumed his real
form and saluted Pattabhirama
“You are the sky,
You are the wisdom ,
Who has left the heaven
and came down to earth,
You are the silence
which is normally maintained by the wise,
You are the Vedas
they chant , when leave the silence,
You are the God, you are the fish , you are the turtle, you the Kural
You are one who came as Hari and cut off the asuras,
You are every
thing, You the God who created
everything
You are the one greater than all , you are the one,
Who will be there
after everything “
When Kabanda
prayed Rama like this,
Rama asked Lakshmana, “who is he ,
He is raining only
wise words”,
Kabandha who had got rid of his curse,
Threw light on
everything
“Oh God , Oh my
lord,
The name that I
held was Dhanu,
Kabanda is the curse
I got from a Gandharwa,
As soon as your divine hand touched
me,
I got rid of my curse
You who are the first
and first among the first,
The flame
that burns without fire
and the wick,
You will do whatever you wish, this is definite,
You are the
blessing prayed to by numerous people
But in the earth
where lot of evil is there,
Once holiness will
not lead to victory,
If you a have
friend with you,
You will never
fail in anything
You are
searching Goddess Sita,
You are sad because
you are not ,
Knowing place or
direction
Very near this place
is the hermitage ,
Of the great saint Mathanga,
If you go there and meet
the female saint,
Sabari , all your problem will go away
SAbari will show
the place where ,
Sugreeva lies in
Rishyamooka mountain,
If you get the
help of that Sugreeva,
The goddess of
victory will extend her right hand to
you,
Like this Kabanda
told Sri rama,
Afterwards, he saluted
the lord and went to the sky
Madhava and son of
Sumithra went towards ,
Hermitage of the
great saint Mathaga,
They some how controlled
their mind,
Which was flying in all directions
Sabari was a great lady who was ,
Nurturing good
character as her babies,
The truth which took the form of lady,
And came to wander in forest’s of earth,
She was aged saint, She was a different person,
Who was born in the clan of ladies,
She had woven books of Dharma in to,
Cloth in the weaving machine and used to wear them
By keeping on chanting
the name of achyutha,
She was the one who made it wet by
the saliva of her mouth
From the time of her
maturity to this ripe old age,
She was the fully ripened fruit , who used
to live,
In the hut of sage Mathanga and served him
The very
elderly hag
In spite of aging a lot, she was the one who delayed
her death,
So that she can
see the son of Dasaratha ,She was hiding
the secret,
That Rama was the God who has been uprooted to earth leaving Vaikunta
Seeing the king and his younger brother coming towards
her mud hut,
The mind of sabari
became very happy, That joy was too too
much,
For some time she froze in to a painting and later took them to her hut
To the lord and his dear brother Sabari gave ,
Fruits to eat and was hospitable, She told them
About the
residing place of Sugreeva
When Rama got up,
she fell on ground and saluted him and told
“Oh man of incarnation, I am one who knows
about you,
I also know that you the root of everything,
You are sea of
dharma who sleeps on the deep sea,
You are the great Veda
who is embraced by Goddess Lakshmi
You are the Lord
Vishnu found out by sage Shukra,
You are the invaluable
one who came as Narasimha,
And tore off the
livers of Hiranya
You are the truth
that helps to get Pursharatha,
You are the
Narayana which is daily read by
philosophers
I was waiting all
these days only to see you,
I never used to
lock the door of my eyes,
So that I can
see you,
With today my Karma
is over, My this birth is over
After telling like this, the simple Sabari,
Due to the power of her Yogas, threw away her body,
And went to the heaven, She became blessed
After walking , walking
for a very very long distance,
In the way showed
by mother sabari,
Rama and his
brother reached ,
In the middle of Rishya mooka mountain
It was mid noon
and because of that,
They shed pots and pots
of sweat
After takig rest
for some time , they took bath,
In pampa river,.Seeing them , who left
ocean of milk,
And were taking bath in Pampa river, the devas sang their
praise
Evening came and that
gave work for the imaginative
skill ,
Of the God of
the colour of sea
In the shores of Pampa Rama saw Sita, wherever he looked,
She entered in to
his mind and troubled him
Thinking of the field of beauty on the land
of paddy,
The field of love
wailed, He who married the pretty face,
Born in the edge
of the plough, was worried and sad,
Like the climber
losing its support
The sky became
bright, they heard the song,
That were sung by
the birds.
When Rama and Lakshmana
were climbing ,
The Rishya mooka
mountains,
From The peak
Sugreeva stared at them,
The being who did
not happiness out of his brother
Greatly scared
that Vali’s people are coming,
He hid himself in to a cave and then he sent word
,
To Hanuman who
had great affection to him,
“Go and find out , who they are” he said
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