Aranya Kandam (contd)
9.Ravanan choozhchi Padalam
Chapter on
Ravana’s trick.
(Ravana appears like a sage before Sita, who hospitably
receives him. When he tells that he had
come from Lanka and has a great regard for Ravana, Sita
says Ravana is a cruel monster, Ravana then takes his original
form, digs the hermitage and keeps it on
his chariot and proceeds to Lanka. Sita
cries and prattles.
In Valmiki
Ramayana, Ravana catches hold of Sita
and keeps her in his plane and tries to fly away. There is no mention of charioteer
there.)
3319. We till now told
what happened to Rama who was
like ,
The matchless
blue sea with conches when he went
in chase,
Of the golden deer
and now we will tell what
happened,
To Sita who
decorated her hair with
flowers which were
fragrant.
3320. When the
words shouted by Mareecha
opening his cave like mouth,
Which was sad to
hear reached the ears of Sita
, she became as sad as a Koel,
Which slipped from a tree and fell , She beat her belly
with hands and fell down fainted
3321. Saying “I
who am ignorant has brought to an end
my happy life ,
With my husband by
telling him, “You yourself catch this
deer and give to me,”
And like a
flowering branch catching fire and
like a long serpent ,
Losing its strength
on hearing the thunder, she fell down and rolled on earth.
3322.”My great lord who does not have any fault
, due to the cheating,
Done by that
cruel Rakshasa, has fallen down
dead and even after hearing it,
You who are his younger brother is still standing near me”,
she said.
3323.”In this
world which is simple , is there
any one who is more strong,
And great than
Rama? You have told this due to feminine
understanding “
Said Lakshmana
who understood it , in a manner that Sita
would understand.
3324.Would the individual valour Of Rama
in any cruel war , would be less
than,
The small strength
of all those people in seven
seas ,
Fourteen
worlds , Seven mountains ? This would never happen” said Lakshmana
3325.” All
the Earth , water , wind , sky
and the fire
and others besides these ,
Would get agitated
as soon as Rama
gets angry and why are
you,
Getting
drowned in this ocean of
sorrow ? What are you thinking about,
That Rama who is black like cloud and
with eyes like red lotus flower?”
3326.”Would Rama
become weakened and call for
help when sorrowing
Before another Rakshasa?
If perchance he calls all the
huge ,
Universes would
come down and get destroyed and
The life of Brahma
and other devas also would get destroyed?”
3327. “What more
can I tell about prowess of Rama?
Is there ,
Any other strength which is comparable to his strength
by which ,
He stringed and
broke the huge bow
of Lord Shiva who destroyed,
Three cities and
was praised by heaven as well as earth for it
?’
3328.”If Rama
has been destroyed as you think
then by now,
The heavens, earth
and Patala would have been
destroyed by this time ,
All the devas
and sages who were existing from beginning as
well as,
The best among people
would have by now been destroyed.
Also Dharma would
have been destroyed.”
3329.”What else should I tell in detail ?
When our Lord Rama shot the
arrow ,
And when it hit that
deer in that place , that
Rakshasa who must have,
Lost his strength
would have shouted those
words loudly ?
Please do not
sorrow , getting worried by it
,Please stay calm.”
Lakshmana told.
3330. When
Lakshmana told like this , with greatly ebbing anger ,
She who felt sorrow as if she was killed , one
with boiling mind ,
And one who is not
afraid of anything said, “After hearing ,
The bad things that might have happened to Rama , your
,
Not going
there is not justice” Said she with great enmity.
3331.”Even if a person has moved only for one day with another ,
He would
sacrifice his life and other one
due to the other person’s love,
But you , though you have heard that Rama has
been destroyed ,
Are standing without getting scared? What other way do I have?
I would now
itself speedily fall in the fire and die.” She said.
3332.Seeing Sita who was like a swan jumping over the forest of lotus flowers,
Who was preparing
herself to jump in the huge fire with great smoke ,
Lakshmana who was requested to guard her by
Rama, stopped her,
Touched the space below the lotus like feet of Sita
and told.
3333.”Why should you die? I am scared after
hearing your words ,
Please get rid of
your sorrow and be here itself , I would go now ,
Are we ones who
can win over the very angry fate “ he said.
3334.” I am going now itself , a great danger has come to us by itself,
You want me to
disobey Rama and want me
to go,
You are alone without any support “ saying this Lakshmana,
Whose heart was
bursting with great sorrow , took leave of her.
3335,He was greatly
worried thinking “If I am
here ,That Sita,
Would jump in the fire
and if I go to Rama who is like a mountain,
The lady would
be left without any guard and evil may come to her.
What should I who
have interest in my life do now?”
3336.”Only by Dharma we can prevent any loss of life and
if I do not leave here ,
Going against the wish Of Sita , she would definitely die? And so,
The only thing
that I dares to do is to go from here”
I am an ignorant one who has attained by my bad and old fate.”
3337.”I would go
but if something bad were to happen
, to the extent possible,
Jatayu , the king of hawks would protect her “
saying like this
That Lakshmana went
by the same route , due to the penance
of devas.
3338. “As soon as
Lakshmana left , Ravana who had
curved teeth,
And who was expecting
him to go , to complete the
cruel plan of his,
Took the form of a sage holding the well tied
three bamboo sticks.
Which would destroy
the three ills of passion,
anger and illusion.”
3339.He had a well dried body appearing as if he has not
taken food,
And appeared as if he
has with great difficulty walked
a long distance,
And was
singing musical songs following proper beats
,
The Sama Veda
which was like the music from Veena.
3340.He was
having a soft walk like the petals
of flowers have been spread,
And was taking
steps as if the entire floor was full of burning embers,
And was having
shivering feet as well as hand
that cannot be protected ,
And was having a
form of a very old man , which would make him hateful to others.
3341.He was wearing a garland of penance made
of lotus beads ,
Appearing as if he was like a tortoise which has controlled its five senses ,
Had a bent body ,
had a great chest wearing the sacred
thread ,
And reached the hermitage
of Sita who had a stainless mind
like Arundathi.
3342.That Ravana who had
put on a garb of a saint could
even mislead devas ,
And he reached
the doors of that faultless
hermitage , He had a voice
,
Which seemed to shiver
and falter and asked “Who is living in this
hermitage .?”
3343.Sita who was in the
forest , thinking that he
was one with faultless mind,
And faultless
penance , who had sweet voice like the honey syrup,
And who was as pretty as the coral branch
came out,
To receive him and said
“Please come over here.”
3344. He who had
a body which sweats like the
Kanmadha (viscous rock) of the
mountains,
Who has been
caught up in the sea of passion
due to love saw her
Who was an ornament to beauty , who is the seat of fame and
Who is the queen
for virtue using
his own eyes.
3345.Let us now see
the state of the mind of the thirsting
mind Ravana who has seen,
Sita with the sweet voice like that of a koel which is not tired,
And who had a beauty that was much greater that beauty of divine maidens.
His arms which had great valour increased in size on seeing her and then became thin.
3346.What is the use of telling that
the row of eyes of Ravana on seeing Sita,
Who was having
the prettiness of the peacocks
that wander in the forest,
Became joyous like
the crowd honey bees
which visited the garden full of
flowers ,
Filled with honey
and drunk it and were dancing
with joy ? it is better ,
To say that it
became joyous like
the mind of Ravana.
3347.Are the twenty eyes
which do not blink sufficient
to see ,
The gem like red body of Sita who was looking like goddess Lakshmi,
Who had come there
leaving her seat of lotus
flowers ? He became ,
Sad that he did
not have one thousand such non
blinking eyes?
3348. Ravana
thought , Is the life span of
three and half crore years,
That I got
doing great faultless penance sufficient
to play ,
In the shore less
sea of the beauty of her who had large number ,
Of bangles in her
fore arms and who was
the best among ladies.
3349.Ravana thought
, with devas along with
their wives ,
Obeying all the
orders that I put to them and becoming
slave to her,
For generations
and with this girl ruling all
the three worlds,
I would obey her
orders and live happily with her.
3350. “Even when
her mind is paining and she is sorrowing ,
If her face shines
like this , when she breaks
in to a smile,
Like a streak of lightning , how will
her beauty be?
To my sister who
saw this lady with the untied hair ,
And gave her to me, I would give her
even my kingship,”
3351.When that
Ravana , the one without
Dharma was thinking like this ,
And staring her
with greatly increasing
desire , that virtuous Sita,
Rubbed off the tears from her eye and then welcomed him,
Saying
“Please do come here.”
3352.Sita after
welcoming him and after he reached her hermitage ,
Gave him a seat of cane
and requested him to sit on
it and that ,
Famous cheat Ravana
kept his hand at rest with three sticks
by
And sat in the
hermitage which was beautified by
flowers.
3353. The mountains and trees shivered
on seeing that Rakshasa,
Of greatly sinful
and cruel deeds , the birds
stopped cooing ,
The big wild animals
were scared and the snakes did
not open their hood.
3354. Ravana who took his seat asked
“which is this home ?,
Which great saint lives here? And who are you?” and
then,
Sita thinking that
he was new to that place and
is one,
Without
deceit and she with long eyes started talking to him.
3355.”Oh great one
, the son of Dasaratha belonging
to the Ikshuvaku clan,
Along with his younger brother , as per the orders of his mother ,
Who was born in the great Kekaya clan
, is staying here
You might
possibly be knowing his name “ said she.
3356.”I have heard about what you told
but I have not seen him,
I had once gone
to that prosperous kingdom
through which,
River Ganges
flows. Oh lady with a long eye
which is like ,
Lotus flower as
well as sword, Whose daughter are you,
Why are you
spending time in this harsh forest” ,
he asked.
3357.That faultless
lady of great Virtue Sita after hearing his words,
Said, “Oh saint who is
following the faultless Dharma
, Janaka ,
Is one who thinks
about people like you and not God and ,
I am his darling
daughter and my name is Janaki
,
And I am the wife
of Rama belonging to Kakustha clan.”
3358. Then after
telling about her story that Sita
asked him,
“Oh very old man ,
you have suffered because you have ,
Come through the
harsh path in the forest and doing penance ,
You have wanted to cross
the sins and blessed deeds.
From where
have you come here”, she asked.
3359.Ravana told “He
is the
Lord of Indra himself ,
He posseses the prettiness of the picture , He was born in clan of
Brahma,
And He is ruling
all the countries including those in heaven,
And he has a
toungue on which the manthras of
Vedas reside.”
3360.”He has the strength to even uproot the very big Kailasa
mountain,
On Which the
Lord Shiva lives and he has great
shoulders ,
Using which he had
powdered the tusks of elephants,
Which carry
this world from eight different directions.”
3361. “All the
people who are crowding his entrance door are Devas,
And all the
assets of Devas like
the Karpaga tree are with him,
The place where
he lives in the famous city of
Lanka surrounded by the sea,
And while telling
about his greatness the words lose their power.”
3362.”His town is
sweeter than the golden city
Of Indra ,
The ancient city of Bhogavathi which is frequented by the serpents
And in fact all cities
of this world and that of heaven and everything ,
In the city of
his are
completely without any fault.
3363”.He is having the
endless life span as given by
Lord Brahma ,
Who sits on the lotus flower . He has
a big hand holding
the great sword given ,
By Lord Shiva who has given, half
of himself to the Goddess ,
He has a prison
in which all the planets are
imprisoned,
And in fact he is the top most
in each and every good quality.”
3364,”He is one with good qualities without cruelty . He is an expert in wide Vedas,
He is unbiased ,
He has the prettiness wanted
by the God of love ,
And he has all the greatness of all
the three Gods,
Who are
considered as the greatest
ones by all the world.”
3365.There are
many best among the prettiest
ladies of the world,
And who are all
thirsting for his love
and though they are,
Pining away for him
, he is not interested in giving
them joy,
But is searching
for a lady who is sweet to his heart.”
3366. “Very much liking the great city from
which he rules ,
I wanted to
stay there for a few days
and though I stayed,
There for a long time, with a mind not willing to part
with him .
I came here” said
he who wanted to kidnap Sita.
3367.Sita asked, “Oh saint who thinks that even body is an extra burden,
Without
liking Vedas and
the mercy of those who have learnt Vedas
What is the reason for you to stay in a town of Rakshasa who does sinful acts ,
And who eats men who are
rational and are stable>’
3368. “You avoided
staying with sages of
great penance in the forest,
You did not think about
very pretty and prosperous
countries with plenty of water ,
And you have
stayed with a crowd of Rakshasas who never think about Dharma,
Oh saint , what type
of activity is this
“ Sita asked.
3369. Having heard
what has been told by the lady,
he who has got limitless boons,
“If faultless
people tell that the
Rakshasas who swing the sword
are cruel,
We would not get scared and if we really think about the truth
,
Oh lady with the shining face like full moon , Are the
Rakshasas more cruel,
Than the
devas and to people like is
Rakshasas are good people.”
3370.When Ravana told like that , Sita who
wore very good ornaments thought
“Those good people who have friendship with cruel people cannot be pure,
To explain it
more properly those who have connection with old cruel habits,”
And as she was not aware that
the Rakshasas who are expert
in illusion,
Can take
any form which they like and so she did not think otherwise.
3371.Ravana who
hearing the words Of Sita though
she has,
Started suspecting
him , wanting to avoid that
completely ,
Started talking
in a different way “ in the three worlds ,
Which does not have
difference in knowledge ,
For the Rakshasas
what is the alternative except,
Following their
own culture “.
3372. As soon as
the Cheater Ravana who had ability to know
The state of
mind told those words , Sita
told him that “ Rama ,
Who has come to reinstate Dharma , by the
time he completes,
The penance in
the forest , the Rakshasas
who travel in cruel path,
Would be completely
eliminated along with their clan
,
And so there would not be any sorrow because of them.”
3373. As soon as
the human lady told like
this , Ravana told,
“Oh Lady who has shining eyes like the fishes , If
human beings can,
Completely
uproot the population of
Rakshasas then,
The entire
crowd of elephants would be killed by small
rabbits,
And the crowd of Lions with curved nails would be killed by the deer.”
3374.”Viradha who had
red hair which looked like a
bundle of streaks ,
Of lightning, ,
The very angry Khara who had a matured
mind ,
Along with his
innumerable army died , which gave
rise
To sound of great joy
and possibly you have
not heard it.”
And the rain
thinking about the end
of those shed tears.”
3375. “Oh faultless
one , The lion that you told
about is Rama and the Rakshasas ,
Are comparable to the
crowd of deer and you are going
to see soon ,
The destruction of all Rakshasas and the joy of the devas because of that,
How can Dharma which cannot be forsaken be
defeated by sin, Don’t you know ,
it cannot.”
3376.When the soft words
of Sita which were like honey mixed with nectar ,
Entered his ears
, Ravana
though he had a body which
expands with joy,
Due to his self respect being hurt by the words that human beings are strong, became very angry.
3377. That angry Ravana replied “if you praise Rama that he gave an end,
To the silly
persons like Viradha , you would know about its end tomorrow itself,
When the great wind from the twenty shoulders of Ravana
blows,
And destroys the
small silk cotton flower
like man.
3378. “Oh innocent lady
who babbles some words
Whether ,
One wants to uproot the great Meru mountain or break the sky,
Or stir the
waters of the ocan , or destroy the northern fire of Badavagni,
Or uproot the
earth or do any of those great
acts ,
None of them are
difficult to perform for Ravana, what do you think of him.”
3379. Then Sita asked
“Just because one has many more
big shoulders ,
Does it mean that
they are powerful? Did not Parasurama with his two shoulders ,
That too in his young age
cut off the one thousand stout shoulders ,
Of Kartha Veeryarjuna
who wore a heroic anklets and imprisoned
The king of Lanka
surrounded by the sea with the water
crows.”
3380. When she told like that his eyes
burnt , his big shoulders ,
Further
expanded , his ten crowns touched
the sky,
The strong twenty hands
clapped against each other ,
The row of teeth biting themselves created the sound of thunder from clouds,
And due to great anger
the form that he took due to
illusion vanished.
3381. Sita thinking
that this man who has taken this form
is not a sage ,
Who has forsaken the
good and the bad and getting suspicion,
And when she was standing there not able to conclude who he is,
Ravana looked like
the very poisonous snake which
had,
Opened its hood
which has become greatly
angry by itself.
3382.If we think about the sorrow of Sita who was
already greatly sorrowing ,
After she saw
Ravana’s real form , how can there be more sorrow than that?
There is nothing
in the world which can be
comparable to it.
She did not do
anything to escape and was shivering like ,
When the God of death who cannot be stopped appears
before her.
3383. Without
bothering to think about my
valour which made ,
Devas do menial work for me , you said that a man who lives ,
Lke a worm in this world as strong
, You are alive only because you
are a lady,
Otherwise I would
think of grinding you with my hand and
eating you,
And if I do that ,
I would then take away my own life”, said Ravana.
3384.“Oh lady who is as tender as a swan
I would lift you in each of my heads,
Which has not bowed before any one
, separately and in a sweet manner
,
And make the deva
maidens wearing numberless
ornaments ,
Bow before your feet
and obey you and then you can ,
Become happy in the wealthy life of ruling all the fourteen worlds.”Said
Ravana.
3385.She then closed
both her ears tightly
by her tender hands
and said,
“ Without bothering to think the good conduct by
which I am protecting the virtue
For the victorious Rama
who holds the pretty bow, like a
dog wanting ,
To taste the ghee
which is poured by sages in
Yagna fire ,
What words did
you tell me , Oh Rakshasa.”
3386.”Would I want
to destroy the greatness of being born in a great clan,
Bothering about
losing my life which is temporary like the drop of water in the tip of grass?
Before Rama with arrows which shine like lightning and .
Which hits like
thunder takes away your life , for
the sake of protecting your life
,
Run away from
here and hide
yourself”, Sita told.
3387.When Sita told like this
, The Rakshasa who was standing
before her ,
Devoid of any mercy
told her , “The arrow which would be sent by your husband,
Comes to hit my chest which has destroyed
the tusks of the elephants,
Which guard all
the eight directions , it would be like,
An arrow made of flower
sent to destroy a mountain.
3388. That Ravana
who had shoulders more
powerful than that of
the mountains,
That bear this
world said, “Oh divine lady who is divine for other divine ladies,
I am having a famished
body due to the disease of passion that grew in my
mind ,
And please save my soul
and give it to me and accept
the great position of ,
The divine ladies who wear heavy ear globes .” Saying this he
saluted her.
3389.When he fell down to salute her feet
, suffering like her soul,
Falling on the blood stained sword
Sita who was personification,
Of patience cried
with great sorrow and wailed,
“Oh Lord ,Oh younger brother “
3390. Then at that
time that bad soul Ravana , recollecting the curse
,
Given to him Brahma
, without touching the body of the divine lady,
Due to the power of his shoulders which were like stone pillars ,
Unearthed the hermitage from a depth of two miles below the earth.
3391.He kept the
hermitage he has unearthed on his
chariot which ,
Was seen by Sita who wears pretty bangles but she could not see her soul like Rama,
And like a streak of lightning falling on earth from the cloud ,
She fainted and
at that time Ravana wanted to
go speedily by way of sky.
3392. When Ravana
told the charioteer to drive his chariot
with greater speed,
She was
rolling like a creeper which had fallen on the burning fire,
And when she was
getting flustered , greatly
depressed and greatly tired
,
She was telling
“Oh Dharma , please save me
speedily from this predicament.”
3393.”Oh mountains
, Oh trees , Oh peacocks , Oh Koels
,
Oh male deer, oh female deer , oh male
elephants, oh female elephants,
Please
understand the state of my unstable soul ,
And go and tell about it
to Rama and Lakshmana who have
stable valour.”
3394.”Oh clouds ,
Oh gardens , Oh Gods of the forest , you know ,
The sad state of
the honest and valorous Rama
, if he loses me,
Please , if
you console me saying “do not be
scared” , then,
Possibly I would get saved and If I am saved is
it bad for you ?”
3395.”Oh Rama ,
for the sake of completely
uprooting the Rakshasas,
Would you not come here
and send rain of arrows like blue
clouds?
Oh Protector , Oh
brother , oh faultless Bharata ,
Oh Shatrugna
who is a brother , would you not
come here and save me?”
3396. “Oh river Godavari
, Oh River who is cool who has nature of melting,
Oh mother like
river who has got a very clear mind
, please run,
And inform my husband
who has learnt all books without learning them,
About my very sorrowful bad fate , Would you not do it?”
3397.”Oh mountain springs which appear before me
, Oh lions ,
Who live in mountain caves , you would later laugh
when you see,
The twenty arms
that unearthed me as well as his
ten heads ,
Fall down here
and there by the powerful arrows of Rama?”
3398.Seeing Sita who was prattling many such things and who was
wailing,
With an opened mouth
, Ravana who was unnecessarily
wasting his life ,
Said, “Oh lady who
is wearing many ornaments and ear
globes ,
Who has very dense breasts , Would those human being s defeat me in war,
And free you from
me ? If they can let them do it
“
And then he clapped
his hands together and loudly laughed.
3399.When that Ravana was telling all these in words , Sita looked at him,
And told, through illusion you have created
a deer and you made Rama,
Who is like the God of death and who would
kill you in some other place,
You came here and are
stealing me and if you know ,
the way ,
By which you can save yourself , do not drive the chariot any further.
3400”:If you are a true
hero , after you have heard
about the fact that a few
men,
Have killed all your Rakshasas in a very short time and
have cut off ,
The nose and breasts of your sister , your coming
like this using illusion ,
Is only due to the deep fear that you have” she told and further told,
3401. When Sita told
like this Ravana looked at her and told.
“Oh lady , please hear this , If I start waging
a war against ,
The humans with a very weak body , My shoulders ,
Which uprooted
the mountain of God who has eyes on forehead,
Would get a vey
bad name and this act of cheating
would lead to better results”
3402.That lady who was
like a doll after hearing it
told,
Possibly fighting a war with the enemies of our clan is wrong ,.
Possibly to
fight with them holding the sword would shame us ,
And to steal the ladies
with virtue in deceit is only
right thing,
To the Rakshasas
who do not have any mercy ,
Which is a crime
and which would bring bad name?
10.Jatayu uyir neetha padalam
Chapter on
the giving up of Jatayu.
(Jatayu , the king
of hawks fights a raging battle with
Ravana. He breaks his chariot , kils his horses, breaks his armour his bow etc.
Ravana taking Chandra hasa cuts off the
wings of Jatayu,. He carries the earth on which Sita was sitting to Lanka and
imprisons her in Asoka Vana in the city of Lanka. Lakshmana meets the worried
Rama. They both find that Sita has been
taken by some body along with the hermitage.
They follow the tracks of the chariot
and find Jatayu. Jatayu tells them what happened and dies.
Rama perform obsequies to Jatayu .
In Valmiki Ramayana,
When Ravana is taking Sita , she removes her ornaments, makes it
in to a bundle and puts it in the middle
of five monkeys sitting on the mountain
top. After cremating Jatayu Rama kills a deer
, makes balls out of its flesh and offers it to the soul of Jatayu.)
3403. When Sita told him like this a sound was heard ‘Hey, Hey , how can you
,
Escape from me, stop , stop” which was told by the
king of Hawks,
Who had sound like thunder , who had enraged eyes like burning fire
,
Who had huge wings which lashed like lightning and who appeared,
Like the golden mountain
Meru coming flying in the sky.
3404. He
came with the huge
wind raised by flapping of his wings,
Making very huge
mountains getting uprooted and
dashing,
Against each other
on the sky and getting powdered like dust and scatter ,
And the sea hugely
rising up making the earth and
sea becoming same ,
And causing a
huge cruel wind storming all over the world.
3405. Due to that
wind huge trees along with their branches ,
Fell on the ground along with their tops touching the
earth ,
With all
clouds on the top of the
sky going to one
side ,
And with
serpents closing their hoods and hiding
themselves thinking that ,
The famous
cruel Garuda is coming on the paths of the sky.
3406. Elephants , Yaalis and other big animals , all the
trees in the forest ,
Bushes, and stones
due to the speed of the wind raised by those two wings,
Went crowded in to
the sky and due to this sky and forest became difficult to make out.
3407. That very
cultured Jatayu came spreading his wings in protection,
And asked “You
have kept the wife of that
pure and great one on the chariot
,
Where are you going
? Now I will hide the sky with all directions with my wings.”
3408. With an
intention of preventing the going
of the
chariot,
On which engines were fixed belonging to the uncultured Ravana
,
Jatayu who
had kumkum like red legs
and head and neck,
Which were like
the reddish sky
and who had a form similar,
To the Kailasa
mountain and who was the king of
hawks came before Ravana.
3409,Then that Jatayu told Sita , “do not
get scared “ and understanding,
That Ravana
has not touched her
, he kept his greatly
ebbing anger ,
Under his control
and started talking to
Ravana.
3410.”You have got spoiled along with your relations ,
you have burnt your life ,
And destroyed it .
Why did you start this
unsuitable act? Assuming that
you are dead,
Leave Rama’s
virtuous wife and go and then perhaps you would not die.”
3411.”Oh ignorant fellow
, You have committed a very
big mistake ,
In your mind you have
thought Sita who is like mother of entire world,
Oh thoughtless one
, Who is left there to support
you now?”
3412. “ Oh sir ,
Do you not know that people of your clan like Khara ,
Fought with him in war and were not able to escape
, Rama gave ,
Their souls as feast
and the God of death took armful,
Of their souls
and had a very great feast for
himself.”
3413. “Did you
desire to throw small balls made of earth
,
On the cruel
elephant which is coming to kill
you and escape?
Or even without realizing that
it would cause your death,
Perhaps you wanted
to keep on swallowing poison and survive?”
3414,”All the
people in the three worlds
, Indra the chief of devas ,
The great trinity
of Gods on seeing him would
shiver ,
Like deer seeing tiger
and not only that would any of
them,
Be capable of
defeating that great
archer Rama.?”
3415.”In this birth
because there is nothing more for you to do,
To cause the
death of yourselves along with your relatives and ,
This would also take you to the huge hell in the next
world ,
Which cannot be
tolerated and for whose good
did you this?’
3416. “ Due to the
fact that these humans are
the primeval ,
Root cause of the great trinity , perhaps you did not understand,
To which God they should be compared and because of that ,
You lost your brain
and did this heinous crime.”
3417. The boons that
you got due to the grace of
Lord Shiva ,
Who rides
on the bull which is expert in
war and
Who made the
three cities burn as well other expertise in war,
Are only
powerful till Rama who is the truth
sends arrows from his bow.
3418-3420.”If that Rama
, the son of king Dasaratha who
has a bow which is bent ,
Comes personally
, it is extremely
difficult to prevent his
arrows and so ,
I would take
this Sita with the pretty forehead
to wherever she was ,
And you go away from here quickly
“ When Jatayu told like this,
Ravana who was the leader of Rakshasas , with spark of anger ,
Coming out of his
black greatly lustrous eyes and with biting lips ,
Told him with anger”,
Do not talk these unnecessary
words ,
You show me those
people quickly . Oh Hawk who comes
against me ,
Before my arrows
pierce your chest and
creates there a big wound,
Go away from here
quickly. Some times the water inside the
,
Steel may come out
but Sita who talks sweeter than,
The juice of Sugarcane
would not go away from me .Please
see that.”
3421.As soon
as Ravana told like
this, Sita ‘s fear doubled
,
And seeing the swan like Sita sorrowing , Jatayu
told her ,
“Oh mother , , now
itself the body of this Rakshasa ,
Would be made in
to pieces , do
not sorrow,
That our lord , the
son of the king has not come ,
Holding
his great bow in his hand .”
3422. “Do not
cry shedding tears like the scattering of pearls
,
Which fall on your breasts and do loose all
hope , and see me ,
Giving as
sacrifice his ten heads to all the ten directions ,
Which are
like pierced fruits of Palmyra tree.”
3423. That Jatayu
who came speedily flying ,
flapping his wings ,
Making a great
sound of thunder , pushed down the series of crowns of Ravana,
And wanted to cut
his head in to pieces
by speedy flapping of the
wings,
Bur broke
his flag which had the shape
of veena and got praise from devas.
3424. That
Rakshasa to whom such a great mishap
has never occurred before ,Laughed
,
With eyes of the
red colour of molten lac and With great anger making seven worlds,
Along with his eye brows he also bent
his mountain like bow.
3425. When the
rain of arrows from Ravana who
had crescent like teeth,
Approached him,
Jatayu made some of them fall by
the flap of his wings,
Some of them he
broke using the sharp claws of his
and using his beak,
Which made even the God of death scared he cut his bow in to pieces.
3426. On the
ten strong heads of Ravana which were like numerous
serpents,
With huge cruel
eyes , Jatayu with his
sharp strong beaks neared ,
Even before he took another bow and was bending it
,
And rose up snatching his gem studded ear globes.
3427, Then that Rakshasa
shouted loudly and sent fourteen
arrows ,
Aiming at the chest of Jatayu who snatched away his ear globes ,
And these did not
stop there and went through the bird king and Again,
He sent several lustrous arrows at Jatayu and the devas took a long breath,
Thinking that
Jatayu who was greatly valorous in
war has fallen down.
3428.Inspite
of new blood flowing out of those wounds , that the king of the birds,
Who looked like a huge
white cloud shining in the sky
which was similar to,
The White cloud
which drank the streams of blood which flowed,
From the body of Khara
and other Asuras thinking that
it is a sea and later left it all.
3429. That Jatayu
who was like a white cloud , took a deep
breath immediately .
Became very angry
and rushed and got up the rows of
twenty shoulders ,
By pecking in his beak
and by scratching by his
nails , by beating with his
wings ,
Cut off his
armour which he was wearing on chest adorned
with pearl necklace.
3430 That Ravana
then sent one hundred arrows
on the broad chest of Jatayu,
Who broke his
armour and seeing that
Devas were scared and perplexed,
And even before
that the king of the birds ,
snatched the bow of
Ravana ,
By his teeth ,
making the crowd of devas shout with
great joy.
3431. That Jatayu
by snatching the bow of Ravana
, who using his strong shoulders
,
Lifted the shining silver mountain along with Lord Shiva , shined
like ,
The rain bow
along with the huge cloud and there was no one who can,
Adequately
describe the great
strength of shoulders of Jatayu, using
mere words.
3432, He broke
the bow of Ravana who using his sword
punished
And won over
Indra who had the chest that
never retreats and had one thousand eyes
By taking it by his moth and breaking it by legs
and he was the friend
,
Of their father Dasaratha
and who was the protector of Rama,
Who broke the bow of Lord shiva who
was of the red colour of fire.
3433.That Ravana
who brings destruction to the
world and who ,
Never gets defeated
by the valour of others seeing
the bow,
Which was suitable to his valour broken with great anger ,
Took a a trident which was like the arrow that was sent
by Lord Shiva ,
Who has
Halahala poison on his neck for
destroying the three cities,
And making great sound threw
it at Jatayu.
3434. That Jatayu
who was the king of hawks saying
“do not think ,
That I would not
be able to bear this and now see
my power”,
Received the trident with three heads
sent by Ravana on his chest,
And the devas who
were in hiding due to their fear to
Ravana said
“Who can do such acts
now” and tapped on their
shoulders and shouted with joy.
3435.That trident , like those starved of the
five sense organs,
Visiting the home of prostitutes , like the guests who have gone,
To the homes were
cultured ladies were absent and like
the ladies,
With soft and
passionate looks approaching the matured saints,
Who can see their own souls , came back
not able to pierce Jatayu.
3436. Before that Ravana who lost his trident , could
take another weapon with speed,
Jatayu cut
of the charioteer driving the chariot drawn by tall horses which hid the sky,
And threw it on
the face of Ravana who
had great passion towards the Very virtuous Sita,
Making him extremely
sorrowful.
3437.Looking at Jatayu who threw the head of charioteer
at him and
understanding ,
The power of his mind
and becoming angry , Ravana took his golden mace ,
And hit him with it
like the flame of fire
rising up and ,
Then the chief of
the hawks fell like a mountain on the earth.
3438.As soon as Jatayu fell on the earth, Ravana very speedily
drove ,
His chariot which
cannot be even followed by the eye sight
,
Rose up on the sky
and when he did that , the soft
natured Sita,
Struggled like
the hot embers entered in to
the existing wound.
3439.Jatayu
seeing Sita fading and
struggling like a new born leaf,
Said to her, “Oh lady who is like a swan , Do not get drowned in sorrow
,
Do not fear “ and
got up leaving a very deep breath and shouted,
“Hey , how can you escape from me
“ and again rushed
,
On the chariot of Ravana with the devas making sounds of joy.
3440.That Jatayu
who rushed on Ravana
snatched his mace and threw it away,
And killed the sixteen
horses which were tied to that very speedy chariot ,
Using his powerful beak which was
like a very harp sword,
And seeing that
valorous deed , even the God of
death shivered.
3441.Further Jatayu destroyed his chariot and due to his not having a bow,
And since Ravana
’s arrows were useless to him like ,
the treasure to the miser
Using his very
sharp talons he plucked the quiver
Which was tied on his
shoulders which touched the sky .
3442.And then later
like a Chichily bird he
jumped on the chests ,
As well as shoulders
of Ravana and beat him with
his wings and due to that ,
Ravana fell down
sorrowing and with a head bent
fainted and Jatayu said,
With great disdain
“Oh your power is only this much .”
3443. As soon as Jatayu told like that , Ravana
flew in to great rage ,
And since he was not able to use
his cruel trident and he did
not ,
Have any other weapon with him Telling “I would kill this Jatayu”,
Took out from its sheath
the sword called
Chandra hasa,
Which never
failed to kill the enemy
and threw it at him.
3444. Due to the
sword which was given to him by
gods and which,
Cannot be stopped
by any one , which would without fail cut the heads of all,
And since
his life span slowly
decreased and got completely
over ,
That Jatayu who cannot be defeated by strength
fell like a,
A mountain on which
the God of Devas threw his powerful Vajrayudha.
3445. Jatayu
fell on the earth with his wings
completely spread ,
And seeing that the Devas ran away , the crowd of sages sorrowed,
Because Sita had
lost her protection and those
living ,
On the world of Lord Vishnu rained
golden flowers on him,
And the mind and
body of Sita who saw it started shivering.
3446.Due to his getting defeated and then winning . that
Rakshasa felt ashamed ,
And shouted with joy
which sound reached the sky and
appreciated his own strength,
And Sita who was depressed like the deer which was caught
in the net ,
Without seeing any way to protect herself
she went on taking long breath ,
Get fainted and
like a
creeper not having support because
,
The branch on
which it was spreading had got broken , she
fell on the chariot.
3447”.Even Jatayu the king of hawks who said
, “I am your strong protection”,
Was destroyed .
What is my fate now?” thought Sita
and wailed like ,
The female Andril bird
which was greatly sorrowing due to loss
of its mate.
3448. Sita was
confused and wailed “ Is
it proper for the good Jatayu,
Who said to me , who had attained very great sorrow , “Do not get
scared”
To get defeated? Is it proper for this one from hell to win?
Would sin win?
Would Vedas became a lie? Does not Dharma exist
? “
3449. She sobbed and wailed “
Obeying me who was shameless ,
You had gone
away, Oh gem amongst males,,.At least please come
To see Jatayu , who was
a great friend of your father ,
Who was like a nail of support to all those who try to stand ,
In the right path
of Dharma .”
3450. “Though it
is my duty that nothing happens to my
chastity , a bad name ,
Has come to the
pretty and very powerful bow of Rama
, who is an expert in war ,
And a bad name
has also come to the clan in which I was born “telling like this she sorrowed.
3451.”Oh Lord Dasaratha who is ruling over the lustrous heaven ,
Would you help this Jatayu who followed
Dharma as per books ,
And who has repaid the debt of a close friend in a perfect manner” saying this she sobbed.
3452. The Rakshasa
Ravana seeing the state of Jatayu who has lost his wings ,
And Sita who is wailing
and her very unprotected state
, understanding ,
That there is no one to stop him , Lifted Sita along with her hermitage,
From the
chariot on to his
shoulders and started flying on the sky.
3453. Due to speed
with which Ravana was going on the sky
,
Sita whose eyes
and mind were rotating , with the
,
Consciousness of
the mind getting destroyed
,
Without able to understand any thing ,
Was lying on the floor
of hermitage in unconscious
state.
3454. After
the Rakshasa went away
, the king of hawks with
The sorrow that
made him loose consciousness
getting slightly reduced ,
With great thought was staring at the direction in which Ravana went ,
And seeing that cheating Rakshasa was going with great speed ,
Started telling the following words to himself.
3455. “My sons Rama
and Lakshmana have still not
arrived back,
The fate which did not give the fame that
I removed the sorrow of
my daughter in law ,
Has broken the
fence of Dharma and What is now going to happen?”
3456. “If only
The victorious Rama and
Lakshmana were here ,
then to Sita,
With a thin waist like streak of lightning and
wearing several gold bangles
Such a sad state of affairs could not have happened. I am not to understand ,
Their state of
affairs ,Is it c cruel trick played by
Rama’s step mother?
3457.”The blue coloured Rama is none
but Lord Vishnu ,
Who sleeps on
the bed of serpents called AdhiSesha.
And so would it be possible for the very angry Rakshasa,
To win over him? I think he has played
a trick with his illusion .”
3458.”My son Rama
would completely uproot all the
Rakshasas,
After completely winning over them and
reek his cruel vengeance?
Ravana the Rakshasa due to the unmistakable curse
of Lord Brahma who was born,
Out of the lotus flower
, Would be scared to touch the Queen of Rama.”
3459. After telling all these words, Jatayu who had very
large wings,
Thought that Sita
had reached the great prison of Ravana,
And thought that
though my wings by which I do war
have been destroyed,
The great wing called Virtue of Sita
who speaks sweet words ,
Would never get
destroyed. Thinking like this he lost his sorrow.
3460. With his
pretty wings getting weak due to excess flow of blood,
And with the thought
that he was not able to save the very pretty Sita ,
And with his mind filled with love for Rama and Lakshmana ,
He started sleeping with his brain
in tact.
3461.Ravana the Rakshasa
speedily took the climbing
plant like pretty Sita,
Being scared to
touch her directly , , kept her imprisoned in the ,
Asoka Vana in
the middle of several very cruel Rakshasis.
3462. Till now we told about activies of Ravana and now
we would ,
Tell about the state
of Lakshmana who had gone
, as per orders of Sita ,
To find out the
welfare of Rama who had gone
chasing the golden deer.
3463.Lakshmana whose mind was paining due to
heightened sorrow ,
Thinking about
the lonely state
of the matchless Sita ,
Was similar to
Bharatha who had to go away from his lord and brother,
And was forced to
go back to the city of Ayodhya
.
3464. That
Lakshmana who was going speedily like ,
A speed boat in a
very clear sea , saw
Rama ,
Who was like a huge
black cloud which has got down
on earth,
And who was
like a huge forest of Lotus which had fully flowered,
And his eyes became as
joyous as his mind.
3465. That Rama of black colour who was worried with thought
That the very scary voice of the
magical deer,
Would be heard by
Sita who had the looks of the peacock,
And due to the illusion
created by the ignorance of feminine
nature,
She would have difference of opinion with Lakshmana and would become depressed,
Saw his younger
brother coming towards him.
3466. Seeing
Lakshmana coming alone in spite
of his telling “ Please protect
Sita”,
Going against his words
and coming slightly depressed in search of him,
Possibly thinking
from the voice of the magical deer
, that Rama ,
Would be facing some problem, possibly
sent by Sita who spoke the very harsh words ,
Who had an
innocent mind and would have been deceived by the lies
,
Which came out from the
open mouth and becoming greatly
depressed by it,
Though he knew
about his true strength and nature, Was it done due to illusion?
3467. When Rama was
thinking like this and also
considering “Who can go against fate
“,
That young
valorous hero who was carrying a
pretty bow came near Rama and ,
When he was saluting it
He was hugged by Rama who was
wearing ,
A shining
sacred thread and with a melting mind asked him,
“What is the reason for
you to come here after waiting
“and Lakshmana replied.
3468.”Due to the
words which are other worldly , which was
not rhyming ,
With reason
and which was cruel and cheating
, Sita who was like a creeper,
Became very
sad , and when I told her that
they were only the words,
Of that Rakshasa
with big mouth , she did not
bother about that ,
And becoming confused
and ordered me ,” Without
stopping here ,
Find out its truth “
and then I told her about the great strength,
Of your shoulders
but she did not take it in to her mind,
And became very angry
and greatly depressed.
3469-3470. When she told
“If you do not go in search of
Rama , I will fall in fire and die,”
And started
running in the big forest
, I became greatly scared
and thinking ,
That If I who am considered as a cheat does not go from there , she would,
Definitely take away her life and I told her “Please do not die, it is not
Dharma”,
And then I
have come over here and meeting you,
Then the faultless Rama thought
“She is not of the nature who would not die ,
Even If this Lakshmana had not come in search of
me and what has happened cannot
be prevented ,
Because the true
state of affairs as narrated by
Lakshmana did not impress her mind,
Alas, alas. , Some
thing bad will happen to her when she
is alone and not protected,
That bad happening
cannot be prevented and those who wanted to kidnap her .
Wanted to separate
both of us from her and have
cheated us very badly.”
3471.”Your coming away leaving Sita
alone is not any mistake on your part,
Because Sita who
is innocent would easily
get mentally upset, and along ,
With great sorrow in her mind has told like that and this is the result of that.
Thinking that it has been told by a very confused mind
,
Please remove the sorrows that has been caused by her mind ,
When you told after proper thought that
it was a Rakshasa and not a golden deer
And prevented me ,
I did not change my decision and ,
Decided to catch
the deer and that decision of mine has spoiled me “
3472., Becoming further depressed he further
told ,”what is the use
Of further
delay? My sorrow would get over only if I am
able to see ,
Sita who is like the
friendly Naganavai bird as well as the koel,
And there is no other
way except this.
WE would walk speedily,
And cover this long distance like
the arrow leaving out of the bow,
And would reach
the garden where Sita
Who is
similar to the best
quality gold , is there
.
3473, As per the
decision when Rama ran and reached the
garden and ,
When he was not
able to find Sita who decorates her hair
with flowers ,
And felt like a
soul leaving the body and later did
not find it,
Even after a great
search and stood there greatly
perplexed.
3474. That
Rama not able to see that divine Sita with the best made up hair,
Became dejected
and like one who does not have
anything to help him,
And like one
who buried all the money earned in earth and later finding
that,
It was dug out and taken away by some cheats
, stood there greatly perplexed.
3475, The earth rotated , the huge mountains rotated
, the thought,
Of greatly wise people rotated , The
waters with waves of seven seas rotated,
The sky rotated ,
The stable Vedas broke down and rotated
,
The eyes of Lord
Brahma rotated and the sun and
moon were displaced and rotated.
3476-3477. “Would that
greatly cultured Rama ,
shout at Dharma .
Would he shout at
the culture of giving? Would he shout at
ability of Devas,
Would he shout at the
sages, would he shout at cruelty of bad Asuras?
Would he shout at
the ability of Vedas?” thinking like
that ,
And shivering and not
knowing how his great anger would end
,
When at that end
the countless materials
were going up to down,
And down to up
due to the change of mood
of that great one,
Who has a body of blue colour and they thought that along
with,
The primeval God ,
the world also would come to an
end .
3478. Then the younger brother saluting his elder one told,
“We have seen marks of wheels of the chariot , we have seen,
That some one was
scared of touching Sita and uprooted
her,
Along with the land she was standing and so there is no
point ,
In thinking that the person was not having strength and,
We should follow
him before he reaches a great
distance.”
3479.The faultless Rama
said, “yes , that is what has to be done”,
And then those
two wearing the long quiver and other weapons like garland
,
Went along the
path followed by Ravana destroying ,
The pretty
mountains and the trees of the forest.
3480.They saw
that after some distance the marks of the wheels,
Of the chariot had vanished and it appeared that the
chariot,
Started flying
in the sky and seeing that Rama
felt like,
A spear entering the wound caused by fire and became greatly upset,
And asked Lakshmana,
“What should we do now?”
3481. That Lakshmana
replied “Oh brother who has
great shoulders ,
Which are
prepared to enter in to wrestling , that
big chariot ,
Has gone
towards the south and knowing
that ,
For an arrow let
off by the bow , the sky is not very distant,
I think that our standing confused and sorrowing here ,
Is not going to help us in any way “ and Rama
replied.
3482.”Yes, that is what we should do”
and both of them started ,
Travelling towards
the south and when they
travelled four miles,
And there they saw a mountain like thing fallen on the ground ,
Possibly due to a great storm and also
a cloth ,
Flag which was
cut in the shape of Veena.
3483.Seeing tht flag
they suspected that due
to the pretty Sita,
Devas and
others might have fought a
cruel war with those kidnappers,
But Rama understood that the shining flag was
cut off,
By the
sword like beak of Jatayu and
with tears ,
Flowing from his
lotus flower like eyes , started
telling.
3484. “Oh Lakshmana , if we properly think over it , I feel,
That this flag must have been cut by the
beak of your father like Jatayu,
Who must have
come here speedily ,He must have attacked with great ferocity,
And we are not able to find what happened in the middle as,
He is alone and
one who is extremely old and one who is weakened a lot.”
3485. “This is
good because That Jatayu who is so strong that
he cannot be moved,
Definitely
would keep on fighting with the enemy throughout the day,
And by that time , we can also join along with him though it is possible,
That by that time he would have freed Sita and there is no point in wasting time,
Thinking
about many such aspects “ Said Lakshmana to the very tall Rama said,
3486.”It is better
that we would walk in this same direction “ and like
the wind,
Blowing speedily
on the ground they both proceeded
with great haste ,
Searching here
and there they saw a
cruel huge bow
Which was broken
like a broken rain bow fallen to the
ground
And like the
huge tide which rises
in the ocean .
3487.”Oh Lakshmana , here lies the bow
which is as powerful as .
The Mandhara mountain which was used by Devas
to churn the ocean ,
And by shape it looks like a crescent of moon and see
how powerful ,
Jatayu must be to
break such a bow by his beak “, Said
Rama and stood there.
3488.Thinking like that
they walked and crossed a very long distance ,
And then saw a very cruel Trident
and two quivers ,
Each having large number of arrows which were lying ,
There like a
mountain and both of them were wonderstruck by seeing it.
3489. Then they walked
further and there they saw the armour ,
Of that Rakshasas
king picked and broken by Jatayu,
Which was lying
with the shine of all the heavenly
bodies in the sky ,
And which was so huge that it was hiding the forest path.
3490. They also saw the horses
with saddle and gear , which
were ,
Capable of running faster than wind and which were lying dead
,
Hiding the entire forest, And they also saw the plae
where charioteer was lying,
And late they saw
flesh and blood lying on the earth and
shining ,
Ornaments which
made the place look like sky with moon
and sun.
3491.Just like
several lustrous solar
orbits have left
the sky ,
And had fallen on the earth , they saw
several gem studded,
Ear globes and
several ornaments with lots and lots of
gems,
And stood there
with their usually shaking hands frozen.
3492.Rama said,
“Oh Lakshmana There are
several shoulder ornaments lying here,
There are also several groups of greatly shining ear globes
And several gem
ornamented hair pieces are also lying here ,
Our father who has lived for long and who is one without support ,
Possibly fought with several lion like heroes .”
3493.When Rama , the consort of Lakshmi told like this , the lion
like son of Sumithra,
Said, if the tree
like long shoulders and
several heads were there ,
To fight against
our father , the one who
has carried Sita
to this lng distance ,
Should only be one
and he must most probably be Ravana.
3494. Approving
the words of Lakshmana who was
wearing a garland made of flower
petals
Rama who was
speedily moving with fire sparks
coming out of his powerful eyes ,
Saw his father
Jatayu who was like the mandara mountain established in the ocean of blood.
3495.Rama who was great and
who was devoid of any bad thoughts
with his red lotus eyes ,
Shedding copious tears
fell on his soul like father who was
strong and cultured , Like ,
A huge black mountain falling on the
silver mountain of Lord
Shiva ,
Who was red like
a ember of fire in colour.
3496. For more than thirty minutes
he was not breathing and fainted
,
Without showing
off any senses and seeing that Lakshmana ,
Lifted him with his pretty hands and sprinkle the water
from,
The stream that was
coming from the cloud and then Rama ,
Opened his
lotus like eyes , slightly got better and spoke as follows.
3497. “Before me , who were there who were
responsible for the death of their father,
Earlier the
matchless Dasaratha
lost his life due to
parting from me ,
Oh my father
Jatayu, you are also dead for my
sake ,Alas,
I who have a bad
fate has become the God of death to you also.”
3498.Oh my father
, for the sake of consoling
the feminine Sita of her sorrow
,
Caused due to golden deer
, when I went behind that deer ,
You without thinking about the after effects , without bothering to think about your being alone,
Fought with Ravana and has repaid your debt
and why should I to whom
,
There are no
relations become sorrowful and for
what purpose.
3499.”Due to this I have become one like dead and am not
really dying now ,
Because I had
taken an oath that I would remove
sorrows of those who are expert in
Vedas,
And have extended my life span. Except going like a tall
tree ,
I am not of any use
to any body and
being one with a lowly job,
I do not have any
desire to continue with this
useless life of mine.”
3500. Instead of
me protecting my wife when she was caught by a stranger,
And the enemy who killed you who were a great one is standing very much alive,
And you have been killed and I who carries a huge and great
bow,
And am carrying on my back the heavy quiver am standing here ,
And I am standing
like fully grown very tall tree.
3501. “In this world are there any more people who are as famous as me?
Oh Bird with huge wings
Oh bird whose strength of teeth is beyond estimation,
I , who am holding a huge bow and am standing here without doing any thing,
When the armed enemy killed you , while my wife with a
bad fate was seeing it?
Can any one
tell that I am one with any
valour?”
3502.Rama who did
not have any one equal to him except himself ,
Went on repeatedly
telling such things and crying
and ,
His brother Lakshmana
who was also slowly fainting and
Was standing in a similar state , and then that king of Hawks,
With some sensation coming back to him , breathed with sorrow
,
And saw both of
them who were surrounding him with opened eyes.
3503.That Jatayu who was breathing heavily not knowing the fate of Sita after he fell down,
After seeing those two
victorious brothers and became
more composed ,
And felt greatly joyous as if he has got back his two
cut wings ,
His own soul as well as the seven worlds and said, “I have got my bad name removed.”
3504,”Oh blessed people
, Iam going to leave my useless
body which has a bad name today,
And by my blessed
deeds , I have been able to see you again
, come near me”
Saying this with
his beak using which he broke the heads of
Ravana wearing a crown,
Again and again
and for several times
smelled the heads of both of
them.
3505.”Seeing the way that
Ravana was carrying Sita
made me suspect that,
It would only be by a trick and
how is it that, you both who have
faultless strength,
Left Sita with
sweet voice , form like a peacock and
virtue like Arundathi alone ?” he said.
3506. When Jatayu
told like this , Lakshmana the younger brother ,
Fully related to
him all the events that took
place there ,
Including the
coming of the strong golden deer , in deatail.
3507.When the great expert in conversation told that words as per the order of Rama,
Understanding that
and thinking about that
that king of Hawks Jatayu,
Thinking that it would be better to console them without causing much mental
pain,
Started
telling them the following very suitable words.
3508.”Can just one
person make a doll?
If we do not accept,
The tenet that
“The sorrows and joys that come to the fameless
Human beings come
due to fate ,” Do we have wisdom ,
To win over the
strength of fate?” Jatayu asked.
3509.” When
sorrow comes due to fate , getting
disturbed because of that,
And getting ourselves destroyed is ignorance .For the loosing of one head,
By Lord Brahma
who created and
differentiated the world ,
What could be
greater reason than fate itself?”
3510. “At the time when joy or sorrow comes , Is it true,
That we can
prevent them from coming to us?
Lord Shiva who took the bow to destroy
the three cities,
Had to beg in the
skull of Lord Brahma . Can this be
explained by penance? .”
3511. It is true that
the very angry serpents
would swallow,
The very sun
which flowers in the sky and which has wealth of heat,
And the moon which
lights up the entire sky in a brilliant manner ,
Has to grow every month and also disappear after that?
3512.”Oh Lads
with pretty shoulders, the suffering one gets ,
And later their
going away are due to fate
from the earliest of times,
Is it possible to
count the sufferings that Indra , the king of devas underwent ,
Due to the curses that came out of the
mouth of
his teacher Bruhaspathi?”
3513.”Oh Rama who is an expert in sending arrows,
due to Sambara a Rakshasa,
Who had unpreventable
strength , who used to do very base deeds,
Indra who holds the Vajrayudha got a bad name by losing his kingdom,
And your father Dasaratha due to power of his great shoulders solved it.
3514.Oh Lord who
has a spear with smell of flesh and who is like the mother,
To the birds
as well as irrational ghosts
, the dharma which is neglected
by the Asuras ,
And the
sorrows of the devas are the reason by which Sita with a lisping talk,
Was made to part
from you and so please completely destroy
,
The Rakshasas who do war of illusion and who are like weeds and live happily.
3515.” When Sita who has long hair and eyes like the
split tender mango was being taken,
By Ravana along with the earth that she was sitting I tried to prevent him ,
By my strength to
the best of my ability but at the
end he cut me off by using
,
Chandra Hasa, a
sword given to him by Lord shiva after
his penance and I fell here,
This is all that
has happened in this place “ said Jatayu to Lord Rama.
3516.Even before
all the words of Jatayu reached the ears of Rama
,
His eyes were
completely filled with blood , fire
like strong breath came out of him,
His eye brows bent and bent further and climbed up , The shining planets,
Started running away
, the Globe of earth burst and
all mountains were broken.
3517. With the earth starting rotating , huge stable mountains also rotated ,
The waters of the
sea , the wind , The sun and the moon also rotated,
The heavens guarded
by devas rotated , Brahma who was
in his own world rotated,
And it became
clear that , the valorous Rama
is the form of everything in the world.
3518.The entire world was perplexed not knowing “On whom the
great rage,
That was in the mind of Rama would fall?” and at that
time with his weapons,
Shining like red
fire , Rama with a laugh that came out of rage started talking.
3519.”You would see me destroying completely all the worlds
with ,
The eight directions as boundary and Devas
who kept quiet ,
Even after
seeing a helpless lady who was alone being kidnapped,
By a Rakshasa holding a sword and seeing you attain this state.”
3520-3521. Please see that
with my prowess in
archery , stars falling
down,
The matchless sun becoming powder and disintegrating ,
The entire
sky burning like
fire , the fire , the sky ,
And all the moving beings disintegrating ,
And all the fourteen worlds
which seem to be big,
Nearing final destruction
and would get completely burnt
out ,
Along with all
the Planet globes by their side ,
Just like the
bubble in the water,
3522, The sun with
its hot rays started setting behind
Meru mountain,
And all eight elephants which stand in directions which cannot be destroyed,
Getting scared
ran away , all the beings in
the world became very sad,
And even the very
brave Lakshmana was greatly scared , Is
there a limit,
For fear of all
others who exist in this world.
3523, When such things
were happening , Jatayu , the king of the hawks said,
“Oh good natured one
, Long live . Do not get even a
little bit angry,
Oh valorous one who cannot be defeated , the devas and sages ,
Are happily living thinking that
through you the asuras can be defeated
,Using which of their strengths would they be able to win over
Ravana who has
done this very cruel deed.”
3524, You saw the valorous jobs done
in defeating me by the
faultless shoulders
of great Valour of
Ravana by the power given to him as boons,
By Lord Brahma
who sits on the lotus
flower , Is there a need to tell more?
Lord Brahma who was created from the lotus flower
with stalk ,
As well as other devas
are working as slaves to
the ten headed Ravana,
And there is no
body else who are doing
the Dharma prescribed to them.
3525,In this earth which is surrounded by great oceans with very clear water,
Like the ladies the devas are
doing menial jobs
to their enemies , is
it not ?
Had they not eaten the
nectar which appeared in the
ocean of milk ,
Given to them by Lord Vishnu who
once measured all three worlds,
Just by his two steps
, Would they be able to be alive
till now?”
3526,”Oh
lads who were holding the very strong
bows in your red hands ,
Because that Sita
who has breasts tied by cloth was alone in the forest ,
You had lost her
by going behind the golden deer with horns ,
And have earned
a very bad name for your clan, When we think properly ,
The mistake is on
your part and what fault has the world done in this case.”
3527.”And so do
not get angry but remove the
sorrow of your loving wife ,
Who is equal to Arundathi in virtue , fulfill the wishes
of devas ,
Establish the
Dharma as told
in the Vedas and also,
Remove all
other ills.” Said
Jatayu who was fit
to join the sacred lotus like
feet.
3528.Rama who is
the colour of black cloud taking
the words ,
Told by the divine Jatayu as the
order given to him by
Dasaratha ,
In his mind understood,
“What is use of anger on
others now?”
And that the only job to be done by him is to
completely exterminate the Asuras ,
And completely
left the anger
from within his mind.
3529.After Rama’s
anger left him , that faultless Rama told,
“Oh father , be peaceful. Is there anything else other than .
What you told by your
mouth , for me to do?” and asked
him
“Please tell me where
that Rakshasa went .” and
the king of the birds ,
Becoming tired ,
and with his consciousness reducing
,
Did not reply him
anything and then died.”
3530.Looking with
eyes at the holy feet of that valorous Rama who is difficult ,
To be seen by
Lord Brahma who sits on the cool lotus
flower and other devas,
Who stands
outside the Vedas and cannot
be seen by the Vedas ,
Jatayu attained to
that land which exists even when,
The great five
el;ements of the world ceases
to exist.
3531.When that Jatayu was getting salvation , that
Rama who was the king of men,
Along with his brother
cried and became tired and all
the trees in the forest ,
AS well as the animals
became completely
depressed and
Brahma and other
devas of heaven , the serpents of
the earth ,
The people of
the world Saluted Jatayu by raising their hands above their heads,.
3532.Rama asked , “
oh younger brother , I have
lost my masculinity ,
Due to the Rakshasas who do not follow Dharma
and would I do ,
Penance after
giving up everything or would I give up my life?
Please tell one of them . Due to me being born as
son , the father,
Who gave birth to us died and here Jatayu
our father has died,
And I stand still alive, What is to be done by me?”
3533.”When Rama told like this , his younger brother
Lakshmana ,
After saluting
Rama said, “Oh victorious one , Always,
Due to the nature of fate man
gets into sad states,
Except for bad name? Now what is the reason for this
thought ?
Should we not drown in great sorrow only after completely
destroying the Rakshasas?”
3534.”My father ,
you being simple , may console
yourself by the parting away ,
Of the simple
Sita who has long hair but is there
any other job ,
For you to do except killing him who took away the soul of our father Jatayu,
And what you
told seems to be not proper
now”, said Lakshmana.
3535.When the younger brother told like this Rama
understanding that ,
Holding such thoughts are the sign of ignorance , consoled himself,
Wiped away the tears
he was shedding due to great sorrow
and told Lakshmana,
“Let us do all the after
death rites to our father in a
proper manner.”
3536.Then they collected
black Akil logs and sandal wood
logs and made a pyre,
Making others who see it wonder , collected the Durba grass properly as per need,
And threw flowers
on the body of Jatayu , This was followed by making
of a sand platform,
And carrying with him clear water by his big he hands , he arrived near that platform.
3537.Rama who is
an expert in the manthra rituals as per the Vedas ,
Sprinkled sandal paste
, water and flowers on that pyre and carried the body,
By his own two
hands and placed it on the pyre built
over the sand platform ,
Kept the fire on the
side of head of the body and
thus,
Carried out all the rituals that need to be done in a proper manner.
3538.That Rama who removed his sorrow due to his rage to destroy the Rakshasas,
Shedding stream of tears
which was like the honey
drops falling from,
The red lotus flowers falling on his body which was as soft as the new leaf,
Bathed in the river which was like the cloud
getting immersed in water,
And after that
offered water ablations
with his hand to the great soul.
3539.All the beings which are higher or lower in status, starting right from Lord Brahma Drank,
The ablation
water that was offered by Rama
and became happy ,
And felt that the offer of water
by the inter linked palms of
Rama,
To the king of
Hawks, with a request , “Please
accept it “ ,
Was like Lord Vishnu
the chief of all beings drinking
the water himself.
3540.That lad Rama who knew how to achieve victory
completely did all the
rituals,
Which should be offered
to the dead one including
offers like that of offering rice balls,
And by that time
the sun with his hot rays similar
to Rama who was ,
Born in his ancient clan
taking bath for the sorrow of death of Jatayu,
Himself
went in to the sea to take bath .,
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