Avathara purushan by Vali (part 6)
Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
Yudha kanda
1.I saw Sita
(Contd)
As per the words
of Sugreeva, all the seventy velam,
Of monkey army stood up
, and slapped on their thigh,
And they reached on the twelfth day
the southern sea.
Rama who holds the bow, with worry though of,
How to reach the
far away Lanka crossing the sea,
And he thought at
the same time greatness of Hanuman,
Who set fire to
Lanka and returned safely back
And he
appreciated him in side his mind
Ravana called Maya
and said to him,
Rebuild prettily ,
Lanka which has been burnt,
And Maya , as usual
did a great job
IN the royal hall
raised by his father in law,
The son in law
called for meeting of his ministers,
He found
fault with those assembled there saying
That to have set free
the animal that set fire to
Lanka,
Was a very big
mistake, it is a great hit to our self
respect.
A minister called
Mahodhara told and using his words,
He rained hot water on those who had assembled there
“Ok king, you set up a dam to our anger
or otherwise,
Order to us to wage
a war, if you do,
WE will bring that
monkey and men who sent them,
Like mud pot, immediately, by breaking all their bones,
And will collect
all their bones and bring them back
The monkey which jumps
from one branch to another,
Killed our branches and it pinched the
neck of asuras,
just like it will pinch the leaves?
just like it will pinch the leaves?
Should respect of
Lanka be lost like this,
These is no
handicap worse than this to us.”
The brother of
Ravana did not agree
to this
He hated the
way it was talked,
Yes, Khumbakarna
interfered,
He put out a knot , to the knot of the no -learned
one.
“Oh my brother, Oh my brother,
The monkey that
entered the town destroyed it,
Whom did the
monkey that has entered your mind destroy,,
It has
destroyed the name of clan of
Paulasthya,
It destroyed
the wealth that we have saved,
It destroyed the
fame of chariot with veena flag.
Tell now whether
the name of this city was lost,
By your behavior or
by one monkey
You loved the wife
of another person,
That day itself.
You started worship for our destruction .
When a huge
crowd of ladies are
waiting ,
To fall on the
feet of this wise man,
You went and fell , at the feet of sita.,
You are
crying like a silly
child,
Where is the
respect and shame ,
For the
country , which the king does
not have,
Why are you staging a drama and are dying,
But any way a
this time , even
if you release Maithili,
And we all go and beg
for pardon,
This earth will
talk that Asuras are scared of men,
The heavens also
will talk like that.
So let us cross this big ocean and kill the enemy,
And then will talk
about the respect that
will remain.”
As soon as he heard
the words of Kumbhakarna,
Indrajit told to
Ravana, “where is the need of army to kill
these cats,
Is there a need of elephants to
wipe away the leeches,
You send me, I will
kill both those men ,
And I will wipe of
clan of monkeys in their blood,”
These were
told by the good pearl born to Mandodhari
Immediately
Vibheeshana stood up to throw,
Letters of
light in to that darkness
2.The story of Hiranya
At first Vibheeshana
, who was like a wise sage ,
Scolded the son of the king, the son of his brother”
“oh Indrajith , in
the pot of wisdom , you still are a
half cooked grain,
A thinker of speed
who lifts weapons without thinking
Your father is
asking for the opinion of oceans,
A canal thinking
it is a mouth of the ocean is roaring,
You are an innocent
one in whom childishness has not
left,
Sit slightly away
and give your ears to hear
others.
Advising like
this , he started talking to his brother
Your dear brother who is a bee drinking , honey of
Dharma
“OH king, oh my elder
brother, Of person from south
Appreciated
by the god who ate
the poison,
You are my
father , mother and Guru who gave me wisdom
All the three
worlds are kneeling down
before you
Only after you
give signal does the sun god sow his
rays of light,
Is planting in the sky which is a huge field
Because being
lifted by your wet toungue,
The SAma veda
with great meaning,
Is lying
always wet
The Narada’s Dumburu
which is famous for classical music,
Is playing some Ghana ragas after consulting your sakota
yaazh
“Oh my elder
brother, would you be forced to
bring down your own flag
Which is praising
you in all these ways,
At the end would
you be forced to do it” like this I am
daily worried,
And because of
that I am telling you the truth”
The town did not burn because of the fire kept by the monkey,
It is due to mother
Vaidehi who is saluted by the
earth
She is is a lotus who has left her seat of lotus and has come to earth,
Her husband’s lotus
like hands are
extremely powerful,
Can our hand stand
before that?
The arrow that churned
the broad chest of Vali, who churned
the ocean of milk,
In this earth
there is nothing else compared to
his bow, in look or strength?
You would have seen how
it killed Khara and Viradha?
It is the fire wall which spits fire on his enemies,
Are there any being
who can oppose that in this island
Oh king , that
Rama is an incarnation of Lord
Vishnu
If we fight with him, our clan would be uprooted
I will now tell you
the story of Hiranya , please hear ,
It with your twenty ears and then narrated
that holy story,
The devotee
of Vishnu and the father of
Trijata
Hiranya was an asura, the eldest son of sage
Kashyapa,
His mother’s name
was Thithi, for asuras the
festival is his birthday
Even for the devas
his words were the
law,
Because of the great
treasure boons given to him,
His life is a never
drying river but also a river
of sin
Hiranya was gold coloured, Hiranyaksha was golden eyed
The gold colured
one was elder brother of golden eyed
one
The younger Hinyaksha, earlier buried earth in side the ocean
Lord Visnu came as
a boar and carrying earth on his horns and killed the asura
The elder brother seeing that
got agitated and did great THapas,
Lord Brahma appeared
before him, and the golden one got
very many boons from him
And after wards, he slept without fear of Death.
Yes.He did not have death in fire, nor in water, not at
night , not in day time,
Not in sky, not on
earth, Not inside house , nor outside,
not in wind
Not by god of death, not in quarrel, not by hand, not by
beast, not by humans
Not by past karma
nor by fate
The devas did not
know any method of killing him,
The Golden one who got many such boons,
The trinity
observed silence
Hiranya told all
that he only was gOd,
And told people
that only his name
should be worshipped,
He also tested whether
his words were effective,
He cut off the heads
of those who did not follow his words
When this golden
one made the concept of fate outdated,
His wife
Leelavathi, one life came of her womb,
And the name of that boy
was Prahladha.
Even while he was in mother’s womb ,
he had learnt,
The eight lettered manthra praised
by the great Vedas
And he had got that type of wisdom by the boon of holy saint Narada
After getting the boon,
he did not feel his father was
great
When the teacher
of school said “tell Hiranyaya
nama”, his toungue,
Did not leave the
name of Narayana
The father came to
know about the actions of son,
And the anger in
his mind burnt like the northern fire
“Hey son,
what is this trouble? Who taught you,
The lesson not to
accept me|
You are thinking
with gratefulness that one who came as a boar ,
And killed my
younger brother,
In the toungue of the world , your father’s name,
And in your toungue , the name of a silly person,
If this mistake had been done by others except you
Would they have stood
with his head intact?
My servant would
have eaten it., Alas
How did paddy straw
came as descendent of the sword,
How come a silly
insect came as descendent of a cruel
scorpion?
Oh son born to me , clean your toungue, erase the name of
Narayana
Oh dear son, the name
of your father , is
beginning to you,”
Hiranya wanted to
make his son, the son of a tiger but,
His son lived as
the son of a bird
“oh father , the
letter of all letters is the eight
letters,
All other
letters were born to the eight letters,
The life of all of
us is the letter on water,
Can a single letter
of that survive even for a second?
One of those letters is my lord’s name,
It is the basic
letter, and if you chant it ,
Our fate would
become good”
“ oh king of kings, You are boasting that,
You are the God that
is worshipped by the Vedas,
The name of one
whose name never changes,
Is made as your
name as lie by you whose name is not forever,
He is
original and you are a copy,
Can copy ever
become original?
Please you
understand,
All the souls talking a form and moving about,
Are all
created by him,
All the breath
that is given to help the beings,
Is given as loan
by him,
He will give, he will take away,
Who can prevent his giving and his taking away?
Oh father , he is Ghee of milk, He is the perfume of small flower,
He is the
truth of
the book of Vedas,
He is the god of
death in your final days.
He is Hari, you also
please know him,
Who is here who is equal
to him
He is the first
one who saved the elephant ,
Which fell in the
mouth of the crocodile
He is the baby , whom I knew ,
Even when I was
in belly of the mother.”
When his son emphasized
on the greatness of Hari,
HIranya
became the form of raging fire,
And that evil
ordered that his son should be killed
The son faced all of them by chanting the name of Hari,
And the father was
defeated in everything
Hiranya roared”Where
is that Hari? Is he here?”
“he is in grass, he
is in a big tree
He is in the seed
of paddy, He is in five types of land,
He is in this
house , He is in your words saying “No”
He is in hand width, corner, pillar, twig and whatever you see,
And he will shower
his mercy” said the son of Hiranya,
Who worshiped
that God
With his bent mind egging him, he hit the pillar with his hand
Next moment that
God appeared before him in a man lion
form
He tore his body, hetook out his liver,
And that pretty Narasimha,
Sent that
Asura to the cremation ground”
Vibheeshana ,
after completing the story of Hiranya, said,
The one who came that day as lion as today came
as Rama”
The king of Lanka
spit on his brother’s face
3.The surrender of
Vibheeshana
The younger brother
who told what was sweeet,
Was made fun off ,
by Ravana, he scolded him a lot,
He threw burning
words on him
“ the one who lies down of waves of ocean,
Pretended
friendliness and took away the
liver of our great one,
Is an evil birth
Similarly he who
falling in love on the one who walks in the forest,
And who wants
to do evil to his brother, is a silly fellow
Vibheeshana, you
and me were carried by the same
womb,
We both have same
blood in our veins, WE both have same
mother,
But our minds
do not get attached,
I live by holding
the sword, you live by catching
feet of others
I am the enemy of
planets and you are jackal who carries
news,
Run away, you do not have
a place here,
The southern
Lanka is not the home
of Traitors,
If you still stay here, my sword will get hungry, it
will eat you.
The fate of
Ravana took Vibheeshana to lord Rama,
The eyes of the holy one
was not able to decide whether to
accept him or not.
Lord Rama called
an assembly and sought their
opinion,
each one had a very different opinion,
each one had a very different opinion,
After some people
talked , Sugreeva talked,
He painted with
a brush of traitor
“oh lord, even if he is evil , elder brother is equal to father,
The younger one
who leaves him in bad time,
Is equal to torn
bad cloths
Apart from that he
belongs to clan of asuras, It is better
to exclude him”
Next Jambavn
spoke, he also painted Vibheeshana with
black paint,
“Oh lord , my mind does not believe in him, He
is a poison which has
Come to us hiding
his intentions, Oh Lord , he should not
be with us
Then the lord Asked
Anjaneya to tell his opinion and he replied
with humility
“Oh Charitable
one , I know this Vibheeshana slightly,
he is person blessed
With good qualities and his mind will not go away from
Dharma,
He is the father
of Trijata who is a companion of Sita
He is the follower of dharma who has come away from king of Lanka,
Considering him
as an insect of disease and also dharma
says,
That you should
bless any one coming to surrender with us
,
Without examining
who he is.Does the tree give
shade after
Examining a person”
Pattabhirama praised
the talk of the son of wind god and then
Told a blessed
story about doves.
“there was a
forest and there plenty of food would
be available
For birds and
cows , there the top of the very
tall trees would touch the sky
On one of
those trees which touched the sky, two doves were
living
In relation,one was a white dove and the other a female bird
By their beaks
they had measured all the
joy that is contained in the world.
When one of them flew
for a long distance in hot
sun, both of them sweated .
One day the male bird got sick and was taking rest and
both of them suffered without food
Later the female bird alone went in search of food and the male bird was
worried about her safely
“Oh good one,
troubles would come
from hunters,
Because we
are the food for them,and so,
Without getting caught
in their net climb up,
And to come back safely
chant name of god”
Advised the male
bird because he loved her that much
Just like what
the male bird feared , the female bird was caught
In the net of a hunter and male bird seeing that cried
When the sky was
shedding water and when the
coloured dove,
Was praying God, when its mind was being covered
with sorrow,
When all its body
was covered by pain
In that torrential rain, in that cold which numbs the feet and hand,
That hunter hanging the
net on his shoulders and carrying
the
Dovee he caught in
his basket, he came and sat at the bottom of the tree,
Where the male
bird was living and due to great wandering slept
It became dark, the torrential rain continued.
The lightning was beating the sky and water was beating the earth,
And pitch darkness
was measuring that forest
And the sorrow of
mind was
making the male bird suffer,
“Oh my dear friend
, why so much delay in returning”cried
the male bird
And from the cage of hunter the female bird answered
“Darling , I have
been imprisoned, my life ended in cage of hunter in the forest,.
Whatever may the
fate, that hunter is peacefully sitting
below the tree we live,
His stomach is
dry in the absence of food, ,like this
his starving just at the door of our
house,
That sin will make
us suffer.It would not go , even if we
take several births,
And so darling , make
some arrangement for his food,
If you do we will not suffer but
As per the order
of its loving wife, the male
dove, using his wing,
Made a heap of wooden
sticks below the tree and brought a stick with fire and lit the heap,
By fanning with
its wings it increased
the fire and in that light forest became white
And the hunter
when the cold was got rid and it
became warm, wanted to steal the male bird also,
And he made
arrangements for that
Then the male dove
talked to him,In its talk, the perfume of great Dharma was there,
“Dear friend, you are my guest, giving you food is the rule
of Dharma,
The female bird who is in your cage is my wife, the essence of Dharma,
She requested me to give food to you,
She woke up dharma in me and enlivened
my conscience,
I will fall in the
fire and die, If you eat and get rid of your hunger, I will live
The forest dove
fell in the fire and the mind dove of the hunter woke up
“oh great being, I
lacked the thought of Dhama in you,
The beings
killed and eaten by me are
innumerable,
How will my birth
become meaningful?
How will my
Karma get erasesd?
I will not eat
meat from now on, I will not
kill living beings,
The hunter took
this oath based on his mother,
He opened the
cage he had and the female bird
which came out,
Told the hunter”My soul will not live without my pair” and it fell on the fire,
The female dove also got burnt, Talk and breath
came to an end
The hunter saw the
culture of the bird, He shouted “ wonderful, wonderful” and
Next moment he
added his body also in the fire
The hunter , male dovem female dove, got golden form and went to heaven,
And became greatly
blessed people
Rama finished
telling his story, Sugreeva
cried,
To him , Anantha
Rama , told to bring Vibheeshana with him
Vibheeshana came and fell
at the lotus like feet of Rama
and stood saluting him
4.Sending Angadha as messenger
The son of Dasaratha lifted the brother of Ravana ,
Who has fallen at his feet and hugged him,
That moment the fate
of Vibheeshana changed
Vibheeshana
started talking,
He started blowing
half as breeze and half as cyclone
His tears flowed through
his throat, fell on his dress,
And the water
washed away all the dirt there,
And then his conscience
became clean
Oh Madhava, Oh Sun
who has born on this earth,
The Lanka
island now does not have charity
or mercy
Seeing all that he
earned being destroyed by my elder
brother,
I was greatly scared”Oh elder brother , when you have several wives,
When you have a star of the clan as your
queen,
Destroying the good name of our clan, your loving
another’s wife,
Is a great treachery,
“That wife who is
divine, is not the pearl garland for you
to wear,
She is the
incarnation of Lord Vishnu’s wife,
And your faith that
she is a proper wife for you is not healthy for you
And that would be
the cause of your slide
down.”
Like this I
begged with him a lot .He made fun of me, He scolded me in various ways,
He who is acting
as fruit tree removing its hide ,
like serpent removing itskin
And spoiling away
the fame of clan of pulasthya and will
never become all right
Oh Lord, though I stay there in a
mansion, not desiring to live in
the house,
Of a coward who stole
the wife of some one else, I came
to this war room
You are the good soul
who is searched by my mind,
You yourself are
the soul of all beings”
Saying this
Vibheeshana again fell at Rama’s feet
and got up
The lord , the
hero without any stain, hugged him tightly
“oh Vibheeshana
leave out your sorrow, give a chance for Dharma
to win
To the evil souls
, whatever we advice , it will not enter their ears,
The time of that
will not come.
Oh sweet one, We are
four sons to our father, With Guha we became five,
The son of Sun God became the sixth, you with a smiling
face,
Who is the brother
of our enemy,in the row of our brothers
has become 7th.
And you have become suitable for our love
and hugging
From now on, Oh Vibheshana, to the lanka surrounded
by the ocean, you are the king,
As long as this broad sky exists, as long as song of
Vedas exists,
You please hold the
flag with veena.”Like this Rama greeted him.
He made younger
brother of Ravana drown in joy and then,
He made
Vibheshana come in procession in the war room,
That God , the Pattabhirama
with a broad mind.
The night came, The
moon came to spit its light
In the moon’s light
, in the thought of Sita , that
Sun burnt,
His younger brother
was sitting near him to obey his
orders
It became morning. The
black water went back,
The job of
building the dam for
the sea started
The king of the ocean who was adamant in the beginning,
Afraid of the arrow of Ananthrama got pacified.
As per the orders
of the lord of earth, the lord of monkeys
Did the job .within three days, they built
the pretty dam and showed him
The squirrels
helped to build the dam and got three lines
on their back,
And their earlier
Karma vanished
All those who obey
the orders of the lord, walked through the dam,
Crossed the ocean
and reached Lanka , where the mother was
there,
Avoiding another birth, avoiding sins , as per the
orders,
They built another
war room in the swela mountain.,
They also blew their
drums.
Hearing the arrival of
the bow as well as problems,
From the grasses
and bushes,
It was informed to
the king, the wind flew like a wind,
And in the force of the wind one string of veena of the flag over the gate was cut.
With twenty nostrils spitting fire, his long hairs rose up,
In great anger
when twenty arms pressed twenty
hands,
The lions carrying his throne got crushed,
When the boiling
point of his anger increased he
jumped, shouted
The one with
flag , the one with veena flag
The single head ache
caught all his ten heads,
He who had a
strong shoulders felt great pain on his shoulders,
The mind of this king who was already
suffering,
Was consoled by
his maternal grand father,
He took juice from dharma
and poured in all his twenty ears
“ oh dear grand son, oh
very pretty one, who attracts all,
Oh heroic one who
salutes Shiva having the moon
It is well known that
you have lifted the kailasa mountain,
The fame which
was very evident before, today is in a
thorny patch,
It could get torn
at any time, It could be destroyed without
identification
The cause, the
land of Lanka has deteriorated ,
He is not Rama, but lord Vishnu who has come to earth,
Adhi sesha is his brother-the junior lord,
Adhi sesha is his brother-the junior lord,
All the monkeys
are devas, we are asuras enemies of devas,
Who had been enemies of each
other for several eons
Their army is
standing on path of Dharma,
About your army,
you yourself tell,
Which army will
win and so,
You please
entrust Janaki to them
If you do like that, this earth will worship you,
This old man is telling
, please obey,
Maithili is a scorpion tied by you on your lap
And that king is
baking you , making you suffer
and watching the fun
For every one God
of death will come riding on a buffalo,
But for you he has
come dressed in the hide of tree.
Hearing the old man’s words , he threw it like a torn
cloth
Even if I am completely destroyed , I will
not agree to leave that lady,
She is more
important to me , more than my
soul,
The king of Lanka
threw his words like this
Then he climbed the north eastern tower and measured,
The army of
monkeys with his eyes,
He who had measured weight of snowy mountain by his fingers
Enquiring with the
spy near by , he understood about who is
who?
But one face which
was standing for war was recognized by
him,
By seeing his
blessed form
He who came as a
dwarf and measured by his feet,
He who came as divine enemy and broke the
pillar,
He who came as a
boar and carried the world,
He who came a turtle
and laid down in bottom of the sea,
Seeing him greatly
shining
Though he told by
mouth “Oh this is that Rama”
He swallowed with
his twenty eyes,
The first among
the trinity and next moment,
He spit what he
has swallowed and
Suffered due to his great anger.
In spite of
that for the king of Lanka,
To correct himself
and for him to be sorry,
The son of Dasaratha before sending
his arrows,
Send Angadha as his
representative
The asura shouted at him “Who are You?”
And angadha
replied
“For releasing his wife , he has sent an emissary,
Our God, the
first of the Vedas,
I am his slave, the son of Vali”
The king of asuras
laughed,
He spread a net
of love
The one who
killed your father,
Is dressing like
Lord Vishnu and is deceiving you,
He is sitting on your back and riding on you,
You come to my side, you will get a gift,
For all monkeys
you would be the king
“Should the lion get the crown given by a small fox,
This is really a joke” thinking like that , not standing
there any more,
Angadha escaped and
reported every thing to the lord
The war started,
Fate dug out the root of Lanka
5.First war
How long can the white ocean lay bare without lord of Vedas?
How long can the
vaikunta close its doors saying lord has gone to earth?
And so the work for which the incarnation man has come to earth,
Started very
urgently, The Lanka was rocked
He who grants all
that is needed by those who request,
He who lies down on white water, He who carries,
The consort of
saraswathi on the lotus of his belly button
He who sleeps on the bed of serpent which slowly shakes,
He whose four arms
move and blesses, he who has a lotus flag,
Slowly moved his hand, signaling entry in to
the battle field
The monkey
army started to enter in to the
pond of blood
Their tails became
stiff and their four legs became active
Water stood
alround the tall walls
surrounding the town,
Those legs which
did not go in the water went in.
All those who kept
their leg, the crocodiles will bite,
chew , eat and shed tears
The army of seventy vellam wanted to go in the city
The water of the
moat prevented them
Fill up the moat, ordered
the lord who fills up our stomach,
And he pointed out
to them the stones lying all around
Those hands that filled the ocean and built the dam,
Filled up the moat
and when it was completed,
With sweat drenching them , they shouted in great joy
The
crocodiles in the water crawled
on the ground,
And the crocodiles
crawled to the town and went towards their homes,
The homes of the
asuras got greatly scared and everywhere
there was tumult
With the ancient
earth shivering, the Kodanda , on
which , bells were tied , made great sound,
And the ears of the huge
town pained,
The ocean of monkeys
which had crossed the huge ocean,
Surrounded the
fort where the shallow sea was ruling,
In that , without any
wind the flag staff fell down,
When the
large number of lamps
are lit ,
Would the flying
insects keep quiet, They spread their
wings to eat the fire
The monkeys and Asuras in great anger dashed beat, hit with their fist,
They shouted “Ohh”, tore them with their nails, shouted
in circle
With speed
climbed, covered the face of others, tore out their eyes,
Only trees and mountains were the weapons
of the monkey army,
Inspite of that
using them, they broke the hip
bones of the asuras
Those who some
how escaped were hit by their hands,
In that
victory their shoulders became
over sized
Some monkeys spun the big asuras
by wet cloths,
Those sinners as they spun
, they shed green blood
Like that some monkeys also became
devas by those asuras,
And went to Vaikunta
The trident ,
swords with large number of tips spears,
Sharp arrows were all
were there with the asuras,
All those
weapons were applied
with poison
The monkeys did
not have bow nor spear , but big stones and their teeth,
And the truth was
that they never
got scared by the silly ones
On both sides
there was loss, both sides
got tired again and afraid,
An army of asuras
along with chariots, elephants, horses
and infantry,
With great
fierceness marched along with the royal avenue,
In the heat it
generated the street’s sand became hot,
The horses, the elephants and over them the jackals of asura clan
One big asura came riding on the chariot, his name
was Vajra mushti,
As per name he
had a diamond like
fist
When he moved his chariot for the war, several eagles
flew along with them
His sword and
bow would give and they will have a scented
feast
A great hero , a valorous one
with great power.
The courageous one who can churned the earth with his
arrows
He entered in
side the monkey army, and killed the beings
with tail,
With sword he
killed those beings with a hunch back
The scared monkey
crowd folded like dry leaves
Seeing the situation , Sugreeva the son of sun God,
himself became like Sun,
He screamed in a
hot fashion,In the jump he did , in all
directions,
The heat of red fire flew around, In the hit that he gave,
The head of Vajra mushti
split in to two
The asura was
caught by Sugreeva, He cried in pain,
Sugreeva
rotated round along with him,
And with this hand he again and again dashed him
Vajra mushti omitted
buckets of green blood
Later the king of
monkeys broke his chariot,
And he killed the
asura who lost his chariot,
The lankan army got split , their elephants shouted in
pain
Neela was the commander of the monkey army
in the eastern gate,
He was a god of
death with tail, he was a god of death who can even kick the horizon,
The asura who came
to fight him was Prahastha, He
was a very powerful one,
He was a right hand of
the king of Lanka apart from his ten right hands
If he took his bow and
sends an arrow , he will not miss the
target
The Neela who was like death tore thisPrahastha in to pieces,
And he made the hawks
eat his corpse
Rama appointed Hanuman to
command the army in the west gate,
He was one who obeyed
the orders of his lord extremely well
He tied the big asuras
who came hit him with a spear by his tail,
He cut them with
his sword like fingers
He was one who had
controlled his five sense organs,
he killed the asura crowd,
Dunmukha the evil
one , The son of anjana jumped towards
him and cut off his lungs
In the southern gate , like god of death of south, stood
Angadha,
He shouted
fiercely, he uprooted the lanka’s soldiers,
Who were the
killing roots of the world
Subarisa was evil
by his conduct,another Mareecha
in doing magic
His capacity was very great, the spray of fire
would always be there in his
eyes,
Words cannot describe
the trouble he created to the
sages
He was a cyclone coming on a chariot, he was the huge stone coming directly
Angadha killed him
and deposited him with the god of death
The younger Lord
Lakshmana stood at the northern gate and defeated,
The asuras who
had a paralyzed mind and he who has practiced
killing tigers
For the first time killed
the rats
The news of the mouths of the monkeys destroying the heads
of many commanders,
When it reached
the ten headed asuras through
his servants
His eyes burnt
like the kilns processing lime and he gnashed
his teeth
Making his long
mouths shiver
He was not able to believe, he massaged his own shoulders,
And he pinched
himself to verify whether it was
dream or realty
The defeat touched
one who has never touched
defeat,
Was it due to
fate or is it the power of tails of the monkeys?
This question
roared in the mind of consort of
Mandodhari,
And attached itself
there like a monkey
He decided that he will wage war himself,
He ordered the
chariot to be brought
6.After going back
today , come tomorrow
The proud chariot
which did not realize
the spiritual truth that
“This body chariot which is run on blood and water is a lie chariot
A ghost chariot which
appears like a pond”
Completely
armed with weapons, got in to the
true chariot,
It became tumultuous
like a fire
And started
towards the battle field
That real chariot
was a pretty chariot of drama,
Which can fly in forest
or land without others
knowing about it
It was a chariot drawn by one thousand horses,
The one which was
driven by Indra earlier,
The one who robbed it and
got bad fame
Went towards the
centre place where battle was in progress ,
He was one who has
robbed the wife of another,
And due to that, a
shameless man and He twanged
with one finger the string of his bow,
And all people
thought that due to that the string of his bow will be cut off,
And due to
that all the three worlds shivered
In the great sound
raised by bow of Ravana which
resembled the thunder
The sea which was making sound suddenly
became silent
The songs coming
out of bamboo grove also became silent
The elephants of eight directions got scared
and rolled themselves like cats
The peaks of the
mountains got detached and fell like pieces
of wood
Seeing the king of
lanka who came on his chariot , the
monkey army
Was surprised and astounded and their mouth got opened and tails
got bent
If he who
has come
before them was aporcupine even a
rabbit would try to fight,
But if it is an elephant
in must , which rabbit can oppose it?
In the heat of
the fear , some monkeys got cooked like food offered in yaga
Some monkeys
sobbed like children left
as orphans,.
Some monkeys went and hid themselves in corners
of the royal avenue
And some of them
went away from the battle field
Sugreeva came and he
threw an axe on the great asura, without
knowing his strength
The asura by
weapon made that axe
as useless and made it fall on the ground,
And he made Vai’s
brother drowned in surprise
Ravana and the son
of Sun god , without interval fought,
And both of
them thought their enemies were weak
In the end Sugreeva
lost his determination and using,
A sharp arrow , the king
of Lanka easily won over him.
Seeing the king of monkeys fall, for powdering the king of the three worlds,
Maruthi took hold of a hill and he aimed and threw it at the hill of sins
The king of Lanka
powdered that and to powder
it and he used his strong hand as sword
Next Anjaneya
uprooted a white Kadamba tree and beat ,
The king of
Lanka with it and he broke
it like firewood
A severe war
broke out between the great one
with a tail,
And the king of
the spear and the war with arrows continued
Blood oozed out and dust
rose up everywhere
When the power of
the enemy increased Ravana sent,
Hundred divine arrows
obtained by boon together on him
And the monkey faced one got tired and
the one,
In whom dharma
never retired,withdrew.
Seeing the son of wind god who was
like right ,
For him and his brother, got tired by the hit of the arrows
Lakshmana entered
the battle field and went on
raining arrows,
On Ravana which
appeared like a torrential rain,
And seeing his prowess, the twenty handed one
himself clapped his hands
The arrows shot
from bows on either side , the hawks
believed,
Would kill lives but arrow hit the arrow mid way
and made it powerless,
And because of that the hawks sat in a corner
and got worried
At the end Ravana sent
the arrow he had received from lord Brahma
And hit the
chest of Lakshmana
Seeing younger
brother Lakshmana getting
defeated
The tall Vishnu
made his mind
in to a fire,
Due to burning
the black god became still
blacker
He saved his anger
on his eyes and by his fingers,
He lifted the bow
called KOdanda
By the twang of
the the string of his bow , he powdered
the sky
He resembled the
lion beating the deer
Hanuman lifted the
lord on his shoulders and the lotus like
god
Hurt the head of the evil asura using
his arrows
On the lord who created
the universe , Ravana sent
several arrows,
And Rama made
those arrows in to torn cloths
Rama sent arrows
after arrows and broke the bow of
the king,
He snatched his
ten crowns, he cut off his flag of Veena,
He broke his
white royal umbrella
He broke the
chariot and killed his charioteer
As well horses of
his chariot
He destroyed the
pride of one,
Who came with the
thought that no one is equal to hin
The king of city of Lanka, became like a beggar
,
And one second
stood benumbed
Our lord told him , “You go today and come some other day.”
7.The debt for the
food he has taken
The dusk when the
mountain of setting , has consumed,
Half the sun
The evening when
followers of Vedas, do Achamana(inner
purification)
Offered water
worship and did sandhya
vandhana
The clouds of the evening which were playing in the sky,
Caught by the
single wheel of Sun’s chariot,
Broke in to pieces
and sprayed the red water
,
Which made the
bottom part of the sky red like the sealing wax
Just like cows
walking back to their cow shed,
The king of Lanka returned back to his home,
He who was the one
who had broken the eight
guardians ,
Of the directions
by his chest,
He who had caught
the nine planets and put them all
in jail
He who by
strumming with his hundred fingers,
Created pretty
songs
He who had strong
hands by
which he lifted the abode,
Of the God who lifts
the fire and dances
He who cleaned his
ten toungues using the Vedas which showed
the real form,
He who had been received
by the asuras due to
thousand year thapas
This king who had been praised in all directions like
these till this time,
Had been put down and broke suddenly in the battle field
Due to the tears
shed by his twenty eyes
, his body swam
The insult made him rock in shame , but the passion that he had,
On another’s wife was tightly caught by him
Due to sita , the daughter of earth was
in his mind,
He walked back seeing the earth,
And crossed huge apartments and mansions
The city withdrew,
his relations went in to hiding,
The eyes of all
came out due to scare
Without seeing any
body, he went to the ladies quarters,
And laid himself
down on the wings of swans
Thinking and thinking about his defeat, he suffered
The elephant that
had grown up to the sky,
Became too
small like a small dog,
Due to the a
black man holding a bow,
If this was known,
Would not the cloud laugh, would not water laugh,
Would not the earth laugh, would not the town laugh,
Without thinking any of these, he thought
“That the root of virtue
in the asoka vaa will laugh,
The chariot of Rama will laugh” and became ashamed
And was pained by
his anger
After
becoming little peaceful, he sent
for four emissaries
Speed of mind,speed of wind, southern breeze and
great cloud”
“go and get all Rakshasas
and asuras who live in the seven large islands of the world”
And declared it as the royal order
His maternal grand father malyavan , who came at that time to his room told
“Oh grand son, Is
it tiredness due to defeat in the war? Please tell,
Is it a decision
because of that, please explain to me,
I have the lamp to light
your darkness” and he fanned him using a peacock fan
“Oh grandpa, I have faced
innumerable battles, but not like
this,
The incomparable
people , alas the elder and younger
brother in battle field”
It is not easy to describe by my words, the stories
of valour drawn by bow by them,
To describe with words
, where shall I go for
suitable words|
I saw within a moment , the magic which was enacted by a divine bow,
With whom did Rama
learn- this knowledge of sending the
arrows?
Oh grandpa , I was
astounded, I became a mad man,
Dharma can change its colour, but the arrows of Rama will not change its ability
Like this
when Ravana willingly praised
Rama, Malyavan started talking
“Oh great hero, I told you earlier
itself that the one who wears
tree hide is not a man,
He is lord
Vishnu who has come in human form, but without bothering my
words,
You screamed “nonsense” on that day. I am again telling
the same thing,
He who came and stood before you is God, A veda who came riding on a monkey,
At least now, accept my words and raise
the flag of victory of the clan
of pulasthya,
As time passes to continue would become difficult and after that,
Your living
would be impossible”
Minister Mahodhara
,, replied in the negative to what
Malyavan told,
He is the brother
of dishonesty and sin
“oh king , spit
out the cowardice like a coward,
Even if it does
not get meat , the
tiger will not eat grass, “
please tell this to your grandpa
Should the king of
Lanka get confused?
Should you wail
like this after coming to the bed room?
Would eyes glimmer
to the Sun?
If you get scared,
the heaven will talk , bad about you
Falling and getting and getting up and falling are epic truths,
A king who has conquered
all the eight directions, feeling
like this,
Is unadulterated
feminineness .
Don’t you have people, Don’t you have shoulders to obey your orders?
Call your
sibling Kumbhakarna, the varuna who can
rain victory in the battle field,”
Next moment the king of asuras ordered”Go and bring
my dear brother, the elephant
Who dresses
himelf”, he threw the advice of his grandpa in the air
Without
knowing that Ravana is down , his sibling was sleeping.
He was The god of
death who has came alive.
If he stands , his
head will touch the sky,
If he walks the earth
will sweat, if he sits , the
eight directions will rub with each
other,
If he lies down, the earth
will find it difficult to
breath,
He was a big valorous one
, but he ate a lot, Hundred
vessels of cooked elephants,
Several buckets full
of fried lions , hundred
pots of seasoned chicken, several vessels
Full of cooked goats and bones of elephants and further cartload
of food etc etc
Eating like that and sleeping was his life but he was a
wise one who could
Recognize the
truth and the lies
The servants Ranvana kicked , beat , jumped on him and pinched
and some how
Woke him up and
escaped with their souls and they told the news to him
Next moment, he
saluted his elder one who was famous and stood there
“Oh younger brother who floats in food and sleep, oh
sweet brother,
Two men and monkeys
have surrounded our town and
are fighting war with us,
Many of our great
warriors are no more, You go and kill those bad ones,
You cook them and eat them”
When Ravana told
like this Kumbhakarna became sad
And he argued
“ oh elder brother, has
the battle of Dharma started?, How many of the soldiers
Of army will die daily”
Were you not cursed by Nandi , that your death would be due to monkeys.,
Would it become truth today?
Did not Vedavathi tell you, earliier“I will come alive
again and drink your life”.
Will it become judgment
of the Vedas today?
The moon of
Vedas called Maithili, The moon
filled with virtue, is she in prison still?
Will she be there
till all of us die?
Oh dear elder
brother
Till the day
when Sita will be wearing a
single cloth, she looks like a hen.
But she is a
serpent
Spitting poison through her eyes decorated by kajal
Please hear me, leave Sita or lie down on your funeral pyre,
Whatever decision
, you want take it now” the dear brother lit the lamp of wisdom,
The elder brother
scolded him
“You are a coward, eat
and eat and sleep fat, with lot
of fat, lie like a fruit
After the
time comes , die
and lie down
My other brother
and you are silly people brought up as
cowards
The idiots who are
scared of a man and the monkey,
I will myself
fight the battle, I will myself
drive my chariot
I thought you are
a scorpion, you are not , you are
harmless insect”
When Ravana told
like this Kumbhakarna cried, he fell at
his
Brother’s feet and
saluted him
“My elder one, If what I told you is wrong
, pardon me, do not keep my words in your mind,
I have agreed for the war, because I am indebted
to the food you gave me,
But one thing, this is the last day that eder brother talks with the younger,
I will disappear ,
eaten by Rama’s Kodanda,
Atleast afterwards,
leave the lady called Sita
so that
you will not die”
The good one ,
held the spear, he took the rope, that
god of death
8.Kumbhakarna
entered the battle field
In the chariot
drawn by thousand
horses , elephants and tigers
with a flag of lion,
The chariot came rushing
and due to that,
The dust rose up
to the sky and though in the chariot
pots and pots of starch was
there,
Due to Kumbhakarna sitting there , the smell of alcohol spread on all four
sides
The asura crowd
having a body like store house of
paddy sitting on horses
Accompanied him and it looked like death
Seeing the four
type of army marching towards them,
the army
of monkeys got scared
And their tails
folded like centipede,
Holding the trident
, the person was
Resembling god of death
standing on the chariot,
Rama asked
“Vibheeshana, see
this hero, any one will wonder
his power and strength,
And they will sweat
in fear
If he is
ccompared to Ravana , Ravana
would come as second
Does this majestic
moon has a waning period”?who is
he? Do you know him?
Is he the starting
point of the valour of the Rakshasas, Please tell me
about him”
And Vibheeshana
explained
“oh he is younger to my elder brother, and I am younger
to him,
His name is
Khumbakarna, out clans Black aruna
Praying the god
who took the poison, he got his trident,
With that he
has taken the lives of Devas,
In his capacity
he equals my brother but in doing sins,
He will not
agree with him
Though he has come
in chariot to the battle field,
He is one who
never swerves away from the right path
He twice told Ravana
that it is not proper to steal other’s wife,
Not liking
those sweet words , Ravana
shut all his twenty ears,
And then only this
great one retired saying “Fate
is stronger”
And has entered
this great battle field
When Vibheeshana told like this the monkey ,
Sugreeva told
Rama,
“oh person of good character, it is a waste for us to kill this Khumbakarna,
It is wise
to draw him to our side “
Immediately Vibheeshana
Went to to the mountain of good who has
come to see,
The mountain of corpses, fell at his feet and saluted
him
Khumbakarna was
upset, he shook his feet
“Oh younger
brother, you have escaped
from the mistake,
Feeling like this I became very happy,
Why did you to
leave the perfumed flowers
And come in search
of this evil smelling stool, go , go away
Go back to the
place from where
you have come”
“Due to our elder
brother , our clan will get a bad name
And it will one day
definitely go away because of my younger
brother,
I thought why are
you spoiling my wish by throwing
mud on it?
Did the field of Dharma Rama refuse
to accept you”
The quick
beating of the mind of sibling
touched the mind of Vibheeshana,
For one second
words did not come and sat on his throat
itself
He hesitated little and then talked
“elder brother, the treasure of Dharma has
calculated your capacity,
And he requested me to bring
you with me.
The kingship of
Lanka was given to me by my lord,
I will make it
yours and I will spend my life
as your servant .
pLease come with me, Oh
my brother who has never done a mistake”
“oh my boy, whether
he is elder brother or an outsider,
If each one of us
do not carry our own sorrow,
We will feel sad but if we carry his sin,
WE will get more sin,
When a person walks in light , his shadow
will come with him
But if he walks in
darkness , the shadow
will go away”
Vibeeshana
told
“To
our elder brother both of us
are like his shadows,
I have moved away, you also move away , the world will praise you”
Likle this Vibheeshana
explained his position.
Khumbakarna laughed with sorrow
“Oh my brother ,
who had got the boon of no death,
You have joined
the divine capital and have ,
got rid of your previous karma
got rid of your previous karma
I am one who has eaten salt of our brother who has done
mistake
Only to repay the debt
, I have come to the battle field
A thing that
cannot be avoided, is that Kodanda will cut off our heads,
Who will do
after death rites?
Oh brother , if you are still here, you will die,
You would become the victim for the hatred of Asuras on you.
Go away from here, That way is proper to you,
Which way is
proper to whom is decided by their fate
Hearing the words
of Elder Kumbakarna,
In the holy man’s eyes, water flowers flowered
Vibheeshana
saluted him and took leave of
him by the language of his eye,
Seeing the way
that younger brother goes, Kumbhakarna shed tears,
That was
tears from his heart
Again the war started, chariots flied, the town became
tired, and the roots split
When the both
armies fought, all places became
wet with blood
Putting thilaka of blood
, the country of Lanka
became Sumangali
And the ladies of the asuras stayed as widows
The asuras burnt
like fire, they roamed like ghosts of midnight
Many asuras
sitting on horses, making the fourteen words shiver
Came with axes and gave
meat of monkeys as food to those
axes
In the attack of asuras , some monkeys went to heaven,
Some monkeys
became those who have disappeared
But in spite of that
the monkey army , jumped and rose
up
It prayed the name of Rama and rose up
It rose up
stamping on the earth of Lanka
Without their leg
of tail touching the earth they jumped,
They applied the
blood of asuras and combed their
long hair,
With the killing
instinct affecting their brain
they shouted like birds of death
Kumbhakarna brought his golden chariot and parked it in
the middle of battle field
And rotated his
great spear and peeled of the
skulls of the monkeys
He pierced with his spear the monkeys
who came war and pushed them to a corner,
He took the monkeys which came near him and crushed them,
keeping them in hia arm pits
And some monkeys
he burned only with the heat of his hand
He made in to
small pieces the rocks thrown by the monkeys,
And made the trees
which they brought in to
fire wood
And then he felled Neela , the one with a strong tail,
who came to fight
with him
Similarly he fell easily
Angadha who came to fight with
him
And immediately
Hanuman raised his shoulder and
challenged him
“Oh great valorous hero, I would uproot this huge mountain standing here
And throw it on you, And if you stand firm in spite of that, I will praise you
And would also be
scared to fight with you
Kumbhakarna
with all his heart accepted what
Maruthi told,
But Maruthi got defeated, and at this time Lakshmana ,
Came in between
and fought with the Rakshasa in between
He cut of the heads
of evil person like matches,
Kumbhakarna appreaciated
his prowess,
And told ,
“He is a
pure hero”
For one moment Kubhakarna praised the Sumithra’s son
Who was husband of Urmila and the next moment chided him
“Oh Lkshmana, my hands
are pretty maidens,
The lady of our
clan, ganga without anything is Surpanakha
Without any hesitation, you cut off her busts,
And today my lady
will cut off your hands, If I cut
, my sister will be happy,
Saying this he
lifted his sword, the younger brother of king of Lanka
Angadha hit him
with a mountain,
Shouting in a big way Kumbhakarna sent his spear on Sugreeva,
The son of wind God caught it and made
it in to powder
With fierceness
raising to the top Kumbhakana ,
Hugged
Sugreeva and started pressing
him, He spun him like rope
He pressed so that
his chest bones would get shattered, He made his tall form short
Sugreeva was in
great suffering, he could not speak,
His eyes went up, he
spit blood
At the end
Sugreeva fainted,
Carrying Sugreeva on his shoulders , Kumbhakarna ran
towards his town
Seeing all
this the monkey
army wailed loudly
9.He paid his debt
When Kumbhakarna carrying Sugreeva like a wet towel,
And like a burning
flame was about to enter his town,
Rama, who was born as
The lion of
Dharma came and stood
before him
And
surrounded him by a fence
of arrows
“Rama only to
make you come I carried him,
Left the battle
field and came towards my
town,
Buffalos and
Buffalos only will fight with each other,
They will not
think fighting with pig is
shameful,
Only you are
equal to me, And only I am equal to you,
If possible take
your bow and break me,
It would be difficult
for your Kodanda to free,
The son of Sun God
who is in my hand. If you are
able to free,
You can easily
free your wife who is filled with
virtue”
Like this Khumbakarna
made fun of Kodanda
Rama,
He pinched him
with his words
“Oh huge Asura, I will
make you fall, if not, I will never touch this bow”
Saying this Lord Rama took two arrows and send them aimed,
At the middle of his eye brows,He fell down on earth and shed blood
Made wet by his
blood Sugreeva
regained his consciousness
He bit off the ears
and nose of Khumbakarna and went towards battle field
When he lost his nose
and ears, Khumbakarna became
very wild
He entered the
monkey army and started killing them with his sword
Jambhavan told “Oh lord, to keep this asura in this earth is bad,
Sent your arrow
on his life spot” and Rama agreed
Sending numerous arrows one by one he cut off the hands,
Legs of
Khumbakarna,Next moment the brother of Asura king,
Opened the screen
of ignorance hiding his mind by himself
The ocean of
valour Khumbakarna crossed the ocean of
Karma,
He asked for two
boons’ Oh Rama you should protect,
My younger brother from the hand sword of Ravana,
Please accept this
as my request
Vibheeshana stood in the way of justice, but I stood by my caste,
And that is he who stood by justice, should live long,
Another request.I do not want to live with a cut nose
Let this dirt which came to me come to an end
By an arrow cut off my head and without
any body seeing,
It bury it in the
depths of the ocean”
The lord appreciated
the requests of Khumbakarna and made
him climb to Vaikunta
When things were like this
Ravana the Rakshasa
who was wandering like dark moon ,
With passion
sawing his mind in to bits,
Became thin like
grass,
Like the mirror hit by the flower arrow
, he broke in to pieces
Keeping the
dangerous passion on the very
prosperous Sita,
He wailed and
shouted
After that
Agreeing to the cheap advice of his ministers,
Ravana to make
sita agree to his desire, approached the great Asura called Marutha
Who is notorious for his ability to change forms,
And made him in to
Maya Janaka and made him stand before
Maithili,
And made her
mind worried
When Sita got shattered on seeing her father,
He became happy and then made love talk to her
“Oh sweet one,
Agree to my desire” Like this,
I have not
begged to any one accept youi
I have seen only
females saluting me,
And never seen a
lady who did not agree to my desire,
Only you are refusing, you are murming to join with me,
And you are scolding me
in your mind,
That is why , I summoned
your father, to advise you,
If you do not agree still, my sword would like to cut off your father’s head
Sita the very innocent one who did not know deceit talked
with Janaka
“oh my father, who has been a king , who has been a sage,
Who has been the assembly,
where ancient dharma Comes and joins daily,
is this the prize
you are giving to giving
birth to me,
Are you longing
to serve this evil one?
You are one who
has performed Yaga and you are the Vedas
And this evil one
is asking you some thing evil,
Is this the work of fate?is it the evil which flows
out of my mind?”
Then the Maya
Janaka told
His words flowerd like water of gutter
“oh my dear
darling daughter,
That sky never has
the wealth that this king has,,
Give the
prettiness given by your fate to him,
I can become
great because of it, because you
are my relation.
Would you be his or would you make
him kill me?
Sita shut her ears
with her hand and hissed “ bad,
worse”
And then pinched
him with the sword which are her words
‘Was this talked by my father? What I
thought as silk, is it torn cloth?
Are you Janaka or an ordinary broker?”
After asking
these questions Sita sobbed and shed ,
Hot water drops
through her eyes
“Oh so this is
your father? Is he mad one?
Would you not cry,
if he is cut off’
Saying this Ravana
Took his sword
with wet blood to cut that Maya
Janaka.
At that time, the news
of his brother’s death came,
And Ravana became
extremely sad and shivered and went
away.
Without talking with any body, the king of lanka , went to
Talk to the walls
of his bed room.Without any one knowing
Taking in to account
the shame it may cause, he started ,
Weeping within
himself
After he left ,
daughter of vIbeeshana told that,
That the one who
came as Janaka was an imposter,
And she removed
her sorrow
Ravana was shattered
to hear aboutthe death of his
younger brother,
He thought whether
it is the leaf shedding autumn
in the garden of Rakshasa,
Is it the time of
fall of the head of incomparable warriors
of Lanka?
Thinking and thinking like this , Ravana became as thin as a twig
At that time Athikaya came, He watered
the dry heart of his father
He said,
“Oh father, we
are clan of asuras, let us
preserve the fame we earned,
For our thought ,
worry is not proper, My sword is idle,
It has been inside
its case only for a long time,
Give a chance to
make it bright with coat
of blood,
I will break the
hips of our enemies , leave
out this worry”
Like this
Athikaya begged the
king of lanka ,Ravana
Put his signature
of agreement by his eyes
Dhanyamala was
another wife of Ravana, Athikaya,
Who was born to her was another Vali in his proficiency
He did not
know the four letter word
called fear,
Though
crashed by elephants his
chest and hip bones never broke,
He was the
one who scratched his nose
in thought in battle field
Even Indra did
not have valour equal to him,
He had
received , difficult to receive boons,
His father
should have become proud of him
Kumbha, Nikumbha, akambha, along with this crowd,
Athikaya
entered the battle field,
And he tore through it,
He removed
the souls,
From bodies of
several monkeys
Unable to kill or
make him fall , Lakshmana
was confused,
He was hesitant
even to take his bow,
Then God of wind
came personally and said,
“Oh Lakshmana, he can be killed by Brahmastra only”
Lakshmana
obeyed him and killed
Athikaya by Brahmastra
Hearing the
death of this young leaf , Lanka shook
That day Akshaya
Kumara and this day Athikaya.
Both these calves
were sent to battle fiend ,
By their own parent
to get killed, shouted Indarjith
Then holding his bow , he started to the battle field
Lakshmana was
waiting in the battle field,
Expecting
the arrival of Indrajith
Vibheeshana told him
“one who is
greatly valorous hero , whose prowess
cannot be
Described by words, Taking the bow
In his right hand
, he has killed
very many devas” he said
10.Indrajith
“Indrajith is the seed
of Ravana,
Indra will salute
him thinking he is Brahma
He will come in a golden
chariot, with
Victory umbrella
and full of weapons
Unable to
bear his weight, milk will spit out the
foam,
The chariot
suffered, the very great earth also would blink
He would enter
the battle field like a God
of death,
And within half a second he will return to fort killing all,
He performs magical war
hiding himself in clouds
He was one who waged
war and killed the devas
He will not take in his hand valorous arrow,
Once he takes , he will rest taking out
the liver”
Knowing the prince
who can show magic
And wage war
hiding in the clouds is coming
The monkey army was greatly scared,
And it happened
as per their expectations
Indrajit, similar to plough going through wet field,
Ploughed away the
monkey army sitting in the chariot
With the hand sword that
he took he cut monkeys in to two
He made their
head and body separate, Seeing
this,
The young lord sent
fire arrows, killed several asuras,
He made them food
for birds to eat
The archery war between
Indrajith and Lakshmana
Went on without a
break, There was war of words ,
Among monkeys
as to who will win the battle
Both the archers ,
were not of the type
,
Who will sell
their respect just for living?
Would it be possible
for devas who stood in the sky ,
To predict who
will win?
In between when Indrajit
got tired slightly,
Vibheeeshana said, “Lakshmana the day time is ending,
The night
time would come soon
If night
comes Indrajith would do war of magic,
He will roam , without
us knowing where he is?
So Now itself shoot
arrows at him,
Later in the pitch
darkness it is impossible to see him”
Knowing the trick Lakshmana sent an arrow,
Before it was shot, Indrajith hiding in the cloud sent
The arrow of serpents and made, the entire monkey army,
Hanuman, Lakkshmana
except Vibheeshana fell down fainted
And then through the sky he drove his
chariot back to his home
Thinking that
Lakshmana and Hanuman are dead
Rama shed tears,
Vibheeshana told him , “This is not death but faint’
and reduced his pain slightly
The devas and their king
who stood on the sky were upset
by sorrow,
And they thought
Dharma was defeated”
Only Garuda understood, That he who
stood in the battle field with tears,
Is Narayana who sleeps
on the ocean of milk and
He came down stood
worshipping that god and he went round,
All of them thrice
and went back
When Garuda opened his long wings its
shadow,
The wind fell on the faces of all those
who were lying faint,
And tie of the
serpent left
When the news that
tie of serpent had left, the devas ,
Became like a bud
opening in to a flower and were extremely
happy
And all the asuras
seeing this bent their head
Like the angry cyclone
Indrajith shouted in anger,
Indrajith again boarded
the chariot and started the war
The lion of sumithra
made a challenge, “I will alone
fight ,
With indrajith
who toed all of us, I will cut off his head
And keep it before your feet,” The pure gold broke in to a smile
This time Indrajith
decided that he will kill
the enemy by magic,
As per the decision
of the prince, the minister Mahodhara,
Took the form of
Indra
Some asuras changed in to saints and with hatred screamed at Lakshmana
Wondering whether
he can lift the weapon
when the devas
And the sages are
unhappy with him” Whether
Dharma itself,
Not following Dharma, attack Dharma?
The brother of Rama for a few seconds lost
his attention
Indrajith thinking
that this is the right
opportunity ,
Sent Brahmastra
towards them, That arrow,
Changed in to thousands
hit Lakshmana , Sugreeva
And many others and made
them fall in the ground,
It made them look
like they were dead
Thinking that
his brother was dead , Rama also fell down
“oh my shadow , Oh my soul which walked outside my body,
Right from your birth , you thought that, , except for sleep and eating ,
Serving me was
more important, Oh Dharma who came with me,
Oh great
penance that I had
done earlier, Oh great scholar,
Oh my another father, Did you come to forest to die like this”
Like this the lord Wailed and fainted
The news that
Lakshmana died and unable to beat
it Rama also died,
Was received
with great joy by Ravana
He ordered the servants to make Sita climb on a plane
And show her the scene of the death of her husband and brother in law
Seeing from the plane which flew low, the godly Sita seeing that
her
Lord and Lakshmana
who were born to live, lying dead
Wailed with all
the eight directions
shivering
“Oh my husband , I
was thinking one day you will save me,
And accept me
and I never ever imagined
that
You will be defeated
by God of death?
I kept quiet feeling you will free me from prison and
I never
imagined you will ask back
my kumkum
I lived thinking you will kill the enemy,
I never expected
you will deceive me like this”
Crying like this Sita shed her tears
like a river
Trijata who
was with her consoled
her.
“Oh Vaidehi, this
plane will not tolerate widows,
And because it is
still carrying you,
Your Rama is still there
without being defeated by Yama”
Getting some clarity by
the talk of Trijata,
Sita returned to
Asoka vana
Every where it
became dark, Vibheeshana sprinkled,
Some water in the
face of Hanuman and he woke up,
Right from the middle of corpses and at that time,
Jambhavan came in search of the son of wind God
He hugged him and
made him take bath in his
tears and told
“OhHanuman you very great and greatly capable,
Assume your
super mega form, climb on the sky,
Go to SAnjeevi
mountain and bring the three medicinal plants,
That I note down. There only these
are available
They only can give
life back to those who are dead”
Maruthi climbed
up upon the sky,
When he stepped on the mountain , Maruthi,
Forgot the names
of the medicinal plants and he,
Uprooted the mountain itself and reached
Lanka
As soon as the wind
of the medicinal mountain fell on
them,
All the dead woke up, just like they were born afresh
This news reached
the ears of Indrajith,
It bit him
like a scorpion
11.The last battle
in Lanka
The Ravana took
bath in pond of honey,
When he heard that king of Sita died
in the battle field.
With Very
pretty red eyed ladies, singing several
songs,
Distributed
different dishes and ladies who
were like lily flowersw
Danced along with proper beats
He was lying with
ladies with very thin hips
And with god of love, like he was greatly enjoying
The one with twenty hands and who has body
with colour of shadow
When he was enjoying
ebbing with happiness
Withgreat musicians singing and pretty ladies dancing,
on the thick pillows
on the thick pillows
The spy who came in the shape of bee told
in his ears
“Rama the cause of
Vedas has risen back with life”
Ravana raised his
twenty eyes to the top,
And leaving out
his great pride , he looked like a
beggar
His son came and
consoled his father who was
greatly shattered
He who has won over
country of Indra, told about his
plans ,
To put an
end to the joy of his enemies
“Oh father, Even when with lot of care
I shoot them with any arrow,
The enemies will
get to life with the SAnjeevi leaf,
They will spit on
our face and talk ill of us,
And bending the
bow called KOdanda they
will challenge us for war
And so father, I will carry out Yaga
in Nikhumbila
And make that bad
crowd unable to straighten
And make them in to dust within a second
But one thing, those silly people have ,
My father’s brother as spy who supplies them our blood
And who is pig of slushy mud
If he hears about
my performing yaga , he will ask them to spoil it
I also have kept another
way to prevent that type
of danger also
This Indrajith’s
great wisdom will give him hundred ways”
After blessing, he sent his son to the battle field,
That very bad one,
who had been hit by several arrows,
AS soon as he reached the battle field,
Indrajith converted
one Asura in to Sita and cut him
before Hanuman by his sword
And he went up the
sky and said,
He would go to Ayodhya
and kill every one
Seeing the mother
being cut by the sword by the son of Ravana,
Hanuman felt as if
somebody was pressing his neck
And fainted and
fell on the earth
Thinking about it, when the lord
and his brother,
Wailed
rolling on the earth,
Vibheeshana took
the form of a bee and went to asoka vana
He saw Sita there
and returning back,
He told Rama
that Sita is safe
Hearing that
the good lord got back his life
And understood
that , “She who was killed was a
magic Sita”|
At that time Vibheeshana told him an urgent news
“Oh lord , If Indrajith completes the Yaga and Nikumbila
There will not be
any one in the world who can win over him and
So we have to
stop that yaga, so that that eventuality will come to us”
Lord ordered his
brother to spoil that yaga becase,
The lord decided
he is the most suitable person to
do that
Along with Hanuman,
Angadha, son of sun God, Vibheeshana,
Accompanied by a
great monkey army, Lakshmana started
He went in to the hall where yaga was done and sent his arrows
He rubbed of the
Yaga which indrajith was performing
In the pit of fire and
destroyed his vehicle and other
help by his bow
Indrajith returned to his palace with blood dripping all
over his body through the sky
Seeing that his
father boiled with anger
With anger the king of lanka asked , “Was your Yaga only half done?”
“Oh father Lakshmana
easily stopped the arrows that I
sent and took away
All my strength
by a single arrow.All the divine arrows I sent did not pierce him,
But they went round him and saluted
him
Oh Father who
sits royally in my thoughts, Please hear what I have to say
Please leave out your passion to Sita which causes death to us.
The clan of asuras
will stay alive and the earth of Lanka will get saved”
When Indrajith
told him like this, Ravana got
very angry against him
He threw very
boiling words at his son, so that all
his body got baked
“Is it my son who is talking to me or is it some silly feeble insect,
Did my soul, boil
lead and pour it in my twenty ears,
Does my
strength to fight depend on your silly strength
I believed in myself
and took the bad name,
And I know very
well about my fate,
If you can destroy
the enemy, if not,
Do you think I do not have any other way?
I may even give away my soul but never give up Sita whom I brought
I will never think
of leaving her and get laughed at by
other kings and be shamed
I would never
lose my respect till
I die,
This is the decision
which I have taken myself
If I die , I will
get the greatness which no body can get
Yes , till the
name of Rama stands , the name of Ravana will
also stand
And the earth
will understand what is meant by
“never fading fame”
Seeing that he
got to fight with enemies
himself
The meganadha(indrajit) kneeled
before him requested his pardon
and again entered the battle field
This time Lakshmana repeated the name
of Rama thrice ,
And fixed it in
his mind and requesting for the
blessings of that lord
He kept a
crescent tipped arrow
on his bow.
“If Rama who has
come carrying a bow, is the one,
Who is the truth residing in heaven, Please go and
get the head,
Of the son of him who lifted the mountain of Lord Shiva”
Telling like this to the arrow in his hand,
The lion of Sumithra, the gold which became hot without fire,
Sent the arrow
that he had
Yes, as per his prayer,
the arrow rose up and cut off the head of Indrajith,
The earth became red, the heaven lost its fear
and laughed
When he who
ruled the island,and he who has ten
toungues
Heard the news, that
his son had died and the war has
overtaken him”
He became torn
like a cloth
The ego which
had filled up within him , some what got
destroyed
He went to battle field
and got the headless body of his son,
Kept it on his lap, fondled it Wailed
in a weak voice
“Oh my son Indrajith and called “Oh God:”
Mandodhari seeing her husband return with headless body,
Of their son
fainted-She who was the address
of clan of great ladies
The Ravana stopped
crying and orderd his emissaries
“Summon
Our moola bala army
All the army came and heaped up , the army armed with spears
The root of all roots, stood alone and finished off that
entire army,
Holding KOdanda in
his soft hands
The moola army
became a useless non existing one
Ravana who shot
the magical spear on the chest
of Lakshmana
And made him fall
on the ground heard that,
Rama had broken the back bone of Moola army” and it
Broke completely his pride and
ego
He called
the council of ministers urgently
And he made oration of challenge keeping his hand on the sword
“The end battle has come, Who were is remaining
come with me
Who will become a widow, is it Vaidehi or the very pretty
Mandodhari?
This final battle
will tell”
The drums made sound, the army moved
The sin and dharma opened their shop
Who will live? Who will fall? The question came up
And the answer
was got
The Indra’s
chariot came to earth,, the root of the God
Got in to it
The army and army
got in to the field and killed each other,
Using several weapons, The battle field was filled with hill of corpses
The Country of
Lanka saw a blood bath
The asuras fell hit by the monkeys,
From every home the wail
of wives arose
When Mahodhara
died in the battle field, Ravana
got angry
At the Lord who
was standing on the field of Dharma
He sent great
arrows on Sri Rama by his great arrows cut them all
Ravana send sent
divine arrows like Mohasthra, Nagasthra and
Rama cut all of them by the Garuda asthra
Rama within his mind told a prayer at the end,
Sent Brahmasthra
on the great asura
That pierced the
chest of Ravana and took away his golden life
He was killed and
his soul was taken
By the sharp arrow
of some one else’s wife
12.Fire took fire
bath
The valour that had spread
earlier in all eight directions
Had fallen on
earth,
The chest which
had expanded like horizon
Had now become
broken down and
Had become
dark like night
And the milk of passion
that had rained towards sita
Had curdled
Vibheeshana
wailed,
He shuddered with his
body shaking and shaking
“Oh elder brother, Oh life of all asuras,
Oh Ravana
with great power and shine,
Oh king of this island
With mouth that
chanted Sama veda , you chanted
passion?
Oh sir, why did you with
your hand that lifted the mountain,
Lift a lady’s
virtue?
I told you several times and increased
your problems,
You did not bother
about what I told,
You played the
drum of war,
The curse given
by Vedavathi and arrow sent by lord Rama
Has made the moon of
clan, in to a little lamp
And they have poured
pitch darkness on head of asuras
forever.”
Vibheeshana
poured the river of tears
Jamhavan wiped his
tears and consoled him
The crowd of
asura ladies cried “alas and alas”
Till their toungue pained
and till that island shook
Spreading out her hair,
wiping out her kumkum
To see her husband’s face she came running
The lady who was
garlanded by the king of Lanka,
Another Sita
Like a cut tree
she fell on the chest of the king
of kings
That Mandodhari who was daughter of Maya and wailed
She drove away the
flies hovering round the
corpse of her darling,
And threw flowers
of her tears on him
“Oh king of kings, The
head of this slave.
Oh drum making
victory sound which drowned,
The three
worlds which give you tribute
Did he who shower his valour against the sky
Got defeated by a deer,
Through the chest
which even the tusks of
The elephants of directions could not pierce,
Did an arrow enter?
Why did you
leave and go far away from me,
who was proud,
That I am the consort
of the emperor of the three
worlds?
Did not time steal away
my flower because
The lady called Sita whom you put in prison , felt bad?
In those
days of youthfulness ,when you
should be happy,
You controlled your senses, gave away sleep
and hunger
And did Thapas and
made Shiva tremble
In this time when you should practice that control of senses
You did not pay
attention to it?
Did it not
take away your head?
After doing mistake after mistake you
went off from this world.
You missed all the chances when your brothers,
Advised you again and again to
reform yourself
Oh lord loving
another man’s wife, you lost yourself
Because you lost
yourself , I lost the golden baby ,
Whom I nurtured singing lullabies?
Like I lost gold that day, I lost you,
Who gave me flower
and put thilaka on my forehead
Oh soul, because I
lost you, see , I am loosing myself”
Saying these she feel dead
on her husband’s chest
She who was the
queen of Lanka, the queen of
ladies,
Who in later days would be included, i
In the list of
five great ladies
Seeing a good lady sorrowing and dying, the world
sorrowed
The earth of Lanka
sorrowed, The eyes of asuras shed tears
The poem of
the third Veda which Ravana composed became sad.
Lord told Vibheeshana
to lit the funeral pyre of Ravana
The brother of
the king of Lanka hesitated
“Oh lord, my brother, fixing his mind on passion,
Had lost his thoughts,If I keep him on the pyre
And lit fire to it, tomorrow all the world,
Will find fault
with me
Rama talked,in his talk , he wafted like a breeze
“oh Vibheeshana, your elderbrother is a matchless hero
The very courageous one
who was praised by devas
and others
How your brother is to you, today he is like that me
After one person
dies you should not have enmity on him
After the fire is put out, does the smoke
stand above it?
Vibheshana as per
the words of Rama ,
Completed the
rituals as per rules
He lit fir e to the
pyre after keeping on it,
His brother and
his wife on it together
And later he did
the rites to all his relations,
Who had lost his life
in the war and gave them good
position in other world.
Rama wanted to fulfill the word he had given to father
of Trijata
Previously and sent
Lakshmana along with Vibheeshana
And before Malyavan
got him crowned
Peace
returned to Lanka, joy budded
there
Whatever the good
people of Lanka wanted , that happened
Later Antharama
called Anjaneya and told him,
“Oh Anjaneya, go to Asoka vana,
And tell her all that happened in this war”
Next moment
Anjaneya went to Asoka vana
“Oh mother, The dharma
which is being saluted by Vedas
Has risen up again
and the sin broke down and
The tree called
sin , due to breakage of its
branch
Has fallen down, Kodanda
has won, Oh lady of sterling character.
Just by one arrow it ate
away that tyrant”
Saying this , the
one who has won over the world by his character,
Stood saluting
her,
Due to over flow
of emotions , for one minute she became dumb lady
By locking the
door of her mouth
Later she
opened the door of flower called
the golden lips,
That lady who was got married by our God
“Oh Maruthi , Oh
My another mother
You poured
pure honey in to my ears,
Only due to you ,
I have arisen from the dead
You came just like the black God who saved,
The elephant who
fell in to the mouth of crocodile,
What
compensation can I give it to you?
Oh great one, if we
keep all the world in one pan of
the balance
And keep you in
another pan, your pan will go down,
Would the seven worlds
, ever be equal to you?
In spite of that, Oh one who put an end to my troubles,
I have a duty to do
some thing good to you
Ask , I will try to give”
Asked the mother
Hanuman asked , “I
should always.
Think
yourself only as my
mother”
The mother gave, the son saluted.
At that time
Vibheeshana came and gave her a request.
“Oh pure one , The lord asked me to get you dressed in new sari
And new ornaments,
He who whose hand grants protection.
Sita , the
lady without any dirt or stain
“Oh sweet one, only if I come like this,the lord
will understand
About the penance
that I did and the sufferings I underwent,
The people of the world also will know”
Vibheeshana said, “These
are the words of the Lord”
And the pure
plant of Thulasi followed him
Beauty was
beautified and was taken
Before the man of beauty and stood saluting him
“Oh daughter of
Janaka, you were imprisoned and so you
have been stained,
You were touched by the passionate one, so you have lost
your virtue
Would the great
asura would have simply left you?
He would have
touched you.He would have given
A hit on the head
of the greatness of your clan
Possibly you would
have got meat and toddy
,
As much as you want in the palace of king of Lanka?
After eating lot,
did your belly become more than full.
I bent my bow to
kill that silly fellow , who thought me as silly,
Not to save
the traitor like you
In the world, just by birth of you, the old dharma was destroyed
The family life got thinned , the dharma of virtue was
destroyed
Go away from here
It is better that
you go , even better if you die.
When the words
which should not be told,
Were told by
one who can never be one, Sita Broke down
She who has never
known any person in whole world except
him.
She took a
decision
“Oh brother in law
set up the fire” said she
The lord signaled to him, The younger one built up a huge fire
The fire took bath
in the fire
Due to the fire ,
the fire itself got burns and suffered
greatly
The fire gave a
judgment , This lady has
fire like virtue.
Embracing his wife, Sita Rama grew large , due to joy
About the fire ,
people will talk fire like words,
And so , he
shut their mouth by fire
13.Crowning
Son of wind god, Son of Vali, Son of the sun,
And also
Vibheeshana, the king of the
bears
And with many like them, along with the ornament
of virtue,
And his
younger brother, Veeraraghava
undertook the journey back
Through the
sky on the Pushpaka Vimana
“If the time limit is over , Bharatha will jump in the fire”
Thinking like that
in proper time the Lord arrived
in Nandi Grama
He hugged his
younger brother and that brother
merged with his lord
Before that the
palace was in Ayodhya, but today Ayodhya
was in the palace
Yes in the divine
world of the lord, wherever you turn
were heads,
The wave of people
The devas , the people of earth, kings of various countries,
Musicians, the experts in playing Veena, various type of artists
All came and got collected to the crowning ceremony
of the lord
And the senior experts
in welcome , welcomed all of them
And blew the drum
and played the pipe
The festival hall,
the hall where even gingelly will not fall,
Stood
supported by very huge pillars
Group by group the
Brahmins chanted the four Vedas,
The servants who had royal insignia, played the trumpets
The purification ceremony was over, Wearing divine cloths,
Wearing divine ornaments, wearing garland of Thulasi
With their bodies
shining more than the divine,
With religious
marka and musk thilaka shining.
Dharma and virtue got up the throne
The chanting
oceans chanted “Om, Om”, at the proper time
The great golden
crown worn by the best heads
From clan to clan was crowned on the lord,
Who gave away the
throne and has now come
to occupy by the throne,
By Vasishta who
was the essence of all Vedas,
And he did his job
as the
guru of their clan
After pattabhisheka was over, the lord and his lady
Sat on the golden
throne and smiled
The trinity of Gods, sages , the thirty three crore devas
Showered
honeyed flowers on them.
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