4.Kishkinda Kandam
(Book on Kishkinda)
(The book starts
with the arrival in Pampa by Rama
and Lakshmana. On their way
to Rishya Mooka mountains from there
they meet Hanuman, the minister of
Sugreeva. Rama then meets Sugreeva and
signs a treaty in which he
agrees to kill Vali , the brother
of Sugreeva , who in turn
promises to help in finding out Sita.
Rama clears the doubt about his ability
in the mind of Sugreeva by
sending an arrow through seven Maramara trees
and Lakshmana throwing the
skeleton of Dhundhubhi by his
thumb.Later Rama kills Vali by hiding himself and sending an arrow to
kill Vali who was fighting with
Sugreeva. Sugreeva is crowned as king of Kishkinda. As rainy season sets in ,
Rama and Lakshmana live in a hut in the nearby mountain. Seeing no activity from
Sugreeva , Rama deputes
Lakshmana to enquire. Tara
pacifies the very furious Lakshmana .
The huge army summoned by Sugreeva
arrives and reports. Rama becomes happy. Emissaries to different directions are sent to search for Sita. Rama gives his ring as an identity
to convince Sita with Hanuman. He also tells him
several private incidents that took place between him and Sita. The
group lead by Hanuman and Angadha reaches
the Mahendra mountain in the southern sea shore. Sampathi the elder brother of Jatayu tells them that
Sita is
in Lanka. Hanuman readies
himself to jump over the sea.)
Kadavul Vaazthu
(Prayer to God)
The primeval god
who had three type of Characters and also
had three forms,
Along with all
principles evolved by him , gave
the first god a name and the form,
And became properly
created worlds and the
beings who live in that worlds
And also became
the thought process of the
wise men and that which is understood
by them.
1.Pambai Vaavi padalam
The chapter on lake at Pambai.
(This chapter
gives a picturesque description
of Pamba lake and sorrow of Rama on seeing
several things in
that lake .Lakshmana consoles him. Rama
takes bath in Pamba lake.
In Valmiki
Ramayana , Sugreeva sees him on the shores of this lake.)
3709. That lake
had lot of flowers which
had honey , it had red eyed elephants,
With strong
hands dipping themselves
but had clear waters which
reflected ,
The sky with
stars and clouds and looked like
they all were inside
it.
3710. It had
clear waters like the cut crystal sheets which were polished,
And its walls
were embedded with several nine varieties of lustrous gems,
And since the clear
waters were reflecting it , it
took the colours of concerned gems ,
And it was similar
to the mind of those people who do not
understand,
The truth in
spite of their great
learning.
3711.All over the
lake the gems in great heaps were found
and ,
Due to the royal male
swans with coral
coloured long legs ,
And very
many female swans , seen together
That lake looked
like the destruction less sky ,
With very many stars
as well as countless
full moons.
3712.It was like
an ocean of pure water which was
created by the matchless son of Khadhi*,
When he wanted to
create the world surrounded by the cool
sea , along with,
The beings that
live in that world as well
sages who were great expert in Vedas,
Which seem to win
the cool salt water ocean, created
by the four headed Lord Brahma.
*Viswamithra
3713. Though that lake
was deep and seemed to tell
“ This is the
lustrous habitat of great serpents,”,
Like the meaning
of words written by ,
The great poets
who were like the wish giving tree ,
It looked very clear
till the end of the nether world.”
3714.With the greatly echoing sound of
swan and other birds ,
Which sit on the petals
of the fully opened lotus
flowers,
It was not possible
to differentiate particular sounds
,
As belonging to any specific bird and so, it
was,
Similar to the
shopping avenue of very big towns.
3715. The swans sitting on the lotus flowers on all sides,
Seem to say , “We
are not aware of the place ,
Where Sita with black hair has been taken ,
And so due to this inability we would
not see,
The face of Rama
but would prefer to die”
And looked
like entering the burning
fire.
3716.Though the clear water of the lake
was capable,
Of clearly showing
the gems lying at its bottom,
Like the true wisdom getting confused due to,
The faulty
ignorance coming in between and hiding ,
It had several
fresh leaves inside the waters
which hid that clarity.
3717.The
lustrous fishes of that lake
hid themselves thinking
That if Rama with
a very sorrowing mind sees them ,
He may recall the eyes
of her who is the symbol of chastity ,
And had parrot
like voice and shed tears from eyes which never shed tears.
3718.Due to the gems which form inside the bamboo
and ,
The gems that are formed
inside the tusk of the cloud like,
Elephants in rut
spreading the water of rut
flowing like the mountain streams
,
Spreading on them
, the lake looked like ,
The face of pretty
maidens wearing gem studded ear studs.
3719.The Elephants with very warm water of rut ,
Dipping and playing
in the clear water, making it turbid,
Were like the bangle
clad prostitutes engaging in,
Continuous love play
and getting
pain in the body and get tired.
3720.Due to the
honey that was flowing from sky touching mountains,
And water of rut surrounded by bees
flowing from the elephant ,
Those who drink the water
of that lake got great deal of enjoyment,
And that lake
looked like the reddish mouth of ladies
with pretty hair.
3721.Like those
idiots who do not have any knowledge ,
Of the eighteen languages
including Sanskrit shouting
together,
That lake was
surrounded by randomly
shouting birds ,
Whose voice cannot
be differentiated by others.
3722.The male swan
getting separated from the
female swan,
Which was tightly embracing like the soul getting separated ,
From the body ,
heard the honey like sound of anklets
,
Of the deva maidens coming to take bath with great concentration.
3723.That lake was
having the luster of the
pail of sandal paste ,
Prepared by the
rich people of the cities because ,
The mountain streams
were pulling along with them,
Akil and sandal logs
which get seasoned in the water
of the lakes.
3724. The fishes
in that tank , like the men
who drink the honey,
From the lips of
ladies who look like deer , drank the
honey ,
From lily
flowers in that tank
and used to swoon due to joy,
And the water crows
, for proving the true nature of
birth and death,
Along with the fish held in their beaks used to go in and
come out of its waters.
3725, To Rama who
used to eat hand full food several times
like the elephant ,
The swans of the tank
which were depressed
showed their gait , possibly
,
Telling him
that they were not capable of
bringing back lady Sita,
Who was like Goddess Lakshmi and would
try to do their best ,
And the lily flowers
showed the prettiness of her eyes,
And the red lotus
flowers showed the beauty of her lips.
3726.Scared seeing
the deva maidens wearing ornaments
that give out light ,
Who used to take
bath in that lake daily by dipping
and playing in it ,
The swans in that lake went and stood on the flowering branches ,
And looked like
the maids of ladies carrying a
swan toy.
3727When the shadows of the crane fell in many places ,
On the crystal like water
of the lake , the playing fishes,
Thinking that the
cranes have entered
inside the lake,
To eat all of them
became scared , while
those,
Cranes were sitting
on the vanchi trees drying their
large wings.
3728.On one side of the lake , there was the
light of the blue gem
And on the other side
the light was given by the
Padmaraga gems,
And due to this lotus flowers remained
pretty in day and night ,
And the Chakravaka
birds which were with them were like breasts of ladies.
3729. With the Valai fishes rushing like a sword thrown with
great force ,
The water dogs
which rolled and proceeded in the waves
which make sound
Appear to dance
with sound of anklets on
those Valai fishes like the street
magicians,
And the frogs
seem to appreciate that dance
by making cackling sounds.
3730.After reaching the waters of that
type of lake and seeing,
The youthful swans
and the lotus flowers Rama , started wailing,
Thinking about Sita who was as soft as the new leaves,
Leaving out the
wisdom that is got by thinking and research.
3731.”Oh Chakravaka
birds having very pretty legs ,
oh youthful swans,
When I am greatly
sorrowing though I know that Sita who cannot tolerate
Parting with me is
not here, is it proper for you not to
show mercy on me ?
If you show mercy on me who is wilting due to that, would it not bring fame to you?
If you talk and
console me , who has never parted with her till now ,
Would it
bring a very bad name
to all of you?”
3732”Oh lake , who
shows the scented lotus flower and
the newly opened,
Scented lily flowers
just like they are ointments to apply
to my burning mind,
You show her eyes
and face, but can you not show me her fully at least once ?
Those who do not
provide help , when they have ability to do it would not become great.”
3733.Rama seeing
the opened blue lotus flowers ,
lily flowers , scented lotus flowers,
Leaves of Vallai climber, Kondai fishes , Varal
fishes, tortoises and other things said,
“oh lake , I am
seeing the different limbs of
the nectar like Sita in you .
Please tell
me whether those limbs thought of me when the great Rakshasa ,
Was carrying
her through the sky
.Please tell.”
3734 “Oh peacock who runs about in joy and who hid himself because ,
She was more prettier than you , Did your mind get cooled
down,
Because Sita is
not there here? You might have seem her earlier
,
And now
without any mercy
, you are dancing with joy,
And is it possible for me to hide from you who has one thousand eyes?”
3735.”Oh consorts of
male swans , even if you are not willing ,
To come near me ,
please tell me something which you know
about Sita?
Would not you talk
to me anything? Would you do wrong to one who has not done wrong?
If she who has no
waist defeats you in
the prettiness of your walk ,
You should have enmity
with her only and how can you hate me,
Who thinks
that your gait as pretty
as that of Sita.”
3736.”Oh lotus
flower , who is golden shade and has
scented petals,
Who has pretty pollen
over which bees sing around in tamil( sweetly),
Sita is not with me
and she does not stay any
where else ,
And if you who are liked
by her say , that she is not with
you also .
How can I maintain relation with you who hides
what is with you?”
3737.”Oh red netti flower which lies near the red lily plant ,
Which is like Sita’s mouth, Which lies without
talking ,
And without helping me in the lake , please show me the
red fruit like mouth of Sita,
Which without any fear
used to come before me and talk nectar like words,
And would you not
give me the honey from that mouth
and the cool words.”
3738.”Oh Vallai climber
, You become like the ears
like the innocent Sita,
Who is like a flowering branch and since nothing else needs to be done ,
Do not you agree
to help you and when things are
like that ,
Iyt appears you have come without the golden ear globes ,
The ear
hangings studded with
pearls ,
Would you not wear them
and would you still like enmity .”
3739.”oh pretty
blue lotus flower which is
like the pretty eyes of Sita,
Who has feet which is like the coral studded on the lotus flower.
And which has fingers painted with red cotton juice ,
Who always lives
in my mind which is like a fully
opened lotus flowers ,
And who has
pretty hair which is like a cloud,
Would you trouble me like poison which has spread
on me?”
3740. Wailing like this
and taking torturous breath
that Rama
Sitting on the
bank of the lake with Kondrai trees with
fully open flowers,
Asked with sorrow
“ Seeing me breaking up due to parting with Sita,
You seem to be not bothered to console me , oh strong tree”
3741.That Rama
who was the place where “mercy”, took
birth,
Saw male
elephants which had flow of water of rut
,
Which is surrounded by black bees feeding female elephants,
With cool
leaves and feeding water
in their mouth and stood there.
3742.At that time his younger brother who wore the ornament of love ,
Looked at Rama
and said ,” Oh elder one , the
time has gone ,
And now please
take bath in this lake and salute the
holy feet,
Of Lord Vishnu who has
grown up like your great fame.”
3743.That Rama
went from that place , due to the penance done earlier
Making even a
big mountain like elephant in rut ashamed
,
Took bath in
the Pamba lake where waves were lashing
,
And which was
full of large number of very scented flowers.
3744.As soon as he dipped himself in that waters , the burning fire like,
Passion of his body
made the waters of the lake , similar
to the cool water,
In which the extremely hot iron staff of the black
smith was dipped.
3745.That Rama
who was the incarnation of Lord Vishnu
,
Who took the form of swan
and taught the rare Vedas to
Brahma,
Took bath there and as per the rules of old Veda
,
Saluted the feet of Lord Vishnu and stayed
in the,
Side of a garden
which was having crowd of sages and ,
The Sun with burning rays
set for that day.
3746.At the time
the girl called dusk arrived
there and at that time,
Rama was
sorrowing thinking of Sita who tied a cloth over pretty breasts ,
Who was not with
him , the moon which had the painful
cool rays ,
Rose up in the
sky like the Sun with his hot rays.
3747.The flowers closed, The birds
went and stayed in their nests,
Al animals stopped their
activity , The trees and leaves closed
,
The parrots
stopped talking , Peacocks
stopped dancing,
Koels did not
sing and The
elephants stopped trumpeting
.
3748. The earth
started sleeping , the beings on
stable mountains slept
,
The faultless watering
place slept , The serpents
started sleeping ,
Those beings of
the sky which are praised slept
, the ghosts slept,
But Rama and Lakshmana who sleep on ocean did not sleep.
3749.When the sun
with hot rays rose from
the sea making the faultless
Rama ,
Get up from the sorrow
, just like when matured
wisdom comes ,
The bad karmas
which are like smoke and slushy
mud ,
Become sad and go away
, the endless night came to an
end and lotus flowers opened.
3750.Rama and Lakshmana
who belonged to Kosala
kingdom with sugar cane
factories,
Which make great noise
, like the nectar which arose in
the ocean of milk with great sound,
Went on searching for Sita who was similar to the female deer of the forest
In long paths where there were ocean like gardens having mountains ,
IN the forests
and with great speed travelled
a long distance .
2.Anuma Padalam
Chapter on
Hanuman.
( Rama and Lakshmana climb the Rishya Mooka mountains and
are seen there by Sugreeva who gets
scared .Hanuman reassures Sugreeva and
Mets Rama taking the form of a Brahmin. Once they get
introduced fully with each other all
misconceptions are removed. Hanuman goes
to bring Sugreeva.
In Valmiki
Ramayana Rama is sen on shores of Pamba
lake and Hanuman gets introduced to them there. There Rama and Lakshmana go along with Hanuman to meet Sugreeva.)
3751. Crossing
several forests and travelling in the path indicated by Sabari,
They speedily and
easily climbed the Rishya mooka
mountains and ,
The very strong
king of monkeys who was living in that
mountain,
Fearing that they
may be his enemies , without knowing
what to do,
Ran speedily in to a cave
thnking “We will escape
for now.”
3752.The monkeys who were ignorant of the
purpose of coming,
Of Rama and Lakshmana
thought “these people are coming
,
As per the
orders of Vali who has enmity
with us and,
They both have
very strong bows and are looking,
Like the blue
mountains . See them and think about
them”
And saying
this they also ran and hid in the mountain caves.
3753-3754.When in that cave Sugreeva and others were standing greatly depressed,
Assuring them not to be scared Hanuman who
was like God Shiva with a low tuft ,
Who swallowed the Halahala poison when Devas were standing depressed and scared ,
Who was the
matchless son of Anjana told them, “You all please stay here”,
And looking like
a student examined that Rama who was like a blue mountain,
And concluded
, “These people are engaged in
cruel war who have taken up,
The form of the saints
who are holding powerful bows” and with this doubt,
Examined them
deeply using the knowledge
that he has earned.
3755.”If we think that
they are the primeval and ultimate
leaders of all the devas,
They should be
three in number but these people are
only two in number ,
And they are
holding bow unlike those three
. Who are there in this world ,
Who are equal to
them? Is there anything which is impossible for them to do,
How can I
judge or understand easily
about their state of affairs?”
3756.”They both look
like people who are sorrowing
and due to that,
They appear to
have a very depressed mind and they do
not appear,
As persons who get sorrowed easily
, They are not devas of the
heaven,
They are human beings and they look like
people who are ,
Searching a great
thing , which would make their mind
dull.”
3757. “They are
the people of very good character who follow Dharma,
And they would
consider Dharma as their only wealth
and their acts ,
Also indicate
that they are not searching
any other thing ,
And I feel that a
problem has come, to
their thing which is like nectar,
And they are
searching for that rare thing on both their sides.”
3758. “They are
people who do not have the thing called “anger”,
They have ocean like mercy , they do not any act that is bad,
But do only acts
that are good , They are
people who have
A form which
would make even Lord Indra would be
scared
They have good
character which makes others scared,
They have a look which
makes others scared ,
And they have
a power which would make god of death scared.”
3759. That Hanuman
due to his great characteristics
was only ,
Comparable to
himself , after thinking about several aspects,
In several ways ,
after staring at them , with
a mind that was ,
Melting in love
for them , stood there like the loving
one who has seen,
Another who left and went away from him.
3760.Even the wild animals like
Lions and tigers, which had cruel eyes,
Huge mouth
and teeth which had better luster than lightning
Were looking at them like they were seeing their
own children and were
following them,
And were staring them with great love and Hanuman thought,
“Why should I
consider them as enemies and
get worried?”
3761.” All birds like
peacock are getting sad
because the Sun,
Was falling on their gem like body , opened their wings fully ,
Surrounded them
like boundary walls and were following
them,
And the crowds of
clouds which were seen densely ,
Everywhere were
slowly following them sprinkling
water on them,
3762”.The stones which were giving heat like the burning fire ,
Whenever their soft lotus like feet touches
any of them ,
Converted themselves
in to fresh flowers with
honey ,
Which were extremely
soft and provided them comfort,
And wherever they
go the
trees and grass appeared to
salute them,
By bending themselves
and does this indicate
,
That these people
were Gods of Dharma.” He thought
3763. He
further thought “are these the gods
who remove the sorrow of birth,
Who destroy the old Karmas which are the reasons for such sorrow , who
grant,
The salvation from which there is no return and not the
life in the land of god of
death?
My bones are melting, I am getting more and more
measureless love towards them
,
There seem to be no limit for my love towards them,
I am not able to understand the reason?”
3764. Thinking like this
Hanuman who had a mind of purity
, stood before them ,
As soon as both of them came and said, “Let your arrival wipe away all sorrow”.
And then Rama who was merciful asked him “Who are you? ,
Where from are
you coming?” and Hanuman started
answering him,
3765.“Oh Lord who
has a pretty body which is blue
like the cloud , who has red eyes,
Which shine like
the lotus flower, which is open and never fades for the cool snow
,
And which is like
poison to all ladies , I was born to Wind God
and Anjana Devi,
And I would tell you that my name
is Hanuman.”
3766. That Hanuman whose shoulders are
higher then any mountain system ,
And which
carries great fame told, “I
assist the son of the Sun God
,
With shining hot rays
who is living in this mountain
and who noticing ,
Your arrival became greatly happy and
wanted me to find out ,
Who you are
and I have come to fulfill that
purpose.”
3767.Rama who had a great bow after
hearing the reply of Hanuman,
And understanding thay
there is no body who have better qualities than him,
And concluding
that ability , good characters , the humility which comes out of knowledge
,
And wisdom were
all completely merged in him , started
telling Lakshmana.
3768.”Oh young hero with the bow on your shoulders , was
it not clear,
From his reply
that there is no knowledge which
he has not learnt,
Which lead to increase in his fame and there is no one in the world,
Who has not mastered
the ocean of Vedas like him ?
Is He who is the master
of words, Lord Brahma
himself
Or is he Lord
Shiva who would be able to answer everything?”
3769-3770.”Oh son,
his form is not the form of the
Brahmachari that we see,
And I have clearly
understood that he has very many specialties
,
And great ability
which make him like one who
is the axis of the entire world.
And later you
would understand that what I say is true” and after saying ,
This to
Lakshmana looking at Hanuman
he asked, “Where does ,
Sugreeva , the king of monkeys live? We have come
here with a desire to meet him,
As well as join with him
in this place and so please show
us,
That Sugreeva who travels in the path of Dharma so that we know him.”
3771.Hanuman said,
“who else are there
comparable to you who
have shoulders,
Which are like the mountains carrying the earth in
this entire earth,
Which is spread limitlessly within the horizons and who are divinely pure?
If you have come
to meet Sugreeva , with an intention of supporting him,
Then the penance done controlling the five senses
is indeed great.”
3772.”Oh Lord who have
shoulders bigger than mountains , due to ,
The merciless
son of Indra(Vali) driving out the son of the Sun God (Sugreeva),
He became scared
and has become lonely to
bear the very great sorrow ,
And is living with me
in this mountain with great
streams ,
And you have come to facilitate wealth coming back to him.”
3773.” All the beings
in this world that does not
reduce , give in charity ,
Whatever they like
, and perform and
complete the Yagas
and try to do,
All the rituals done
by wise elders from time immemorial
and is there ,
A great Dharma
than giving protection to
those who are greatly scared,
Of the one who is
an enemy of their clan and who is like
God of death.”
3774.”Since you
are the Lord who has the power of creation ,
Of the devas who
do not blink their eyes to beings ,
Which are fixed as well as moving And have the capacity of protecting
The three types of seven worlds , it is easy to tell for us
that you would protect,
Only us as we who seek protection from you who are like Lord Subramanya ,
And is there
any other better benefit that would
come to us.”
3775.That Hanuman
who was like a fence guarding truth looking at them asked,
“What shall I tell
about who you are , to my clan
leader, Sugreeva. Please tell ?”
And then Lakshmana who was was wearing the long heroic
anklets ,
Without getting
tired , narrated every thing about them
In proper order
and with great clarity so that Hanuman
will understand it.
3776-3777.”That king Dasaratha who had the royal umbrella
, was born in the clan of Sun,
And had ruling
scepter which was big and had great luster and he was,
The great one who ruled
all over the earth and that
valorous one who for the sake of Devas ,
Killed Sambara
and other Asuras and
had done several fire sacrifices,
And was capable
of ruling the earth and heaven and
,
He had a view
point which was personification of mercy,
And he rode on
elephants with flowing rut , strong tusks and dots ,
In their faces
and fought the war along with his great bow ,
And he further
had great wisdom and the
scepter ,
And no Kings called
Manu where equal to him and he
was ruling ,
Over the kingdom of Ayodhya which had golden palaces and big boundary walls,:
3778.“This best among the valorous men is the son of
that great Dasaratha,
And as per the order of his step mother
, with great sense if responsibility
,
Gave away the
wealth of kingship which was his
to his younger brother,
And reached
this big and great forest and his name is Rama,
And I am assisting
him who has great ability with the
long bow.”
3779.And then he
told him about the story from the birth
of Rama ,
Till the base ,
and cruel cheating done by Ravana and
told ,
Everything in great detail without leaving out anything.
Hearing all that
that son of wind god with great
joy saluted the feet of Rama.
3780.When he saluted him
, Rama asked him, “how is it that you ,
Who are a Brahmin and who is an expert has done this act which is not right,
As it is not
Dharma “* and hearing that that
victorious Hanuman who had ,
Strong and very
big shoulders said, “Oh lord who
has the scepter,
And red eyes like the lotus flower , I also am born in the clan of monkeys.”
*Brahmins were not supposed to salute any other caste.
3781. That Hanuman
who had come to remove the solitary
nature of Dharma(Rama),.
Making Rama and Lakshmana who were
like a form taken by
lightning ,
Greatly surprised
took a mega form which was
Making inadequate ,
The description that
it was a personification of
Vedas and Sastras,
And Whose
shoulders were taller than the golden mountain of Meru .
3782. That Rama who was the incarnation of Lord
Vishnu who had measured ,
The three worlds by his two steps , who had lotus like eyes,
And who was armed with the divine wheel could not see the
golden face ,
Of Hanuman who was wearing ear globes and that huge form of Hanuman,
Who was taught
all great books of eternity by Lord Sun,
Was like something
which cannot be properly described by others.
3783.Rama who had very big eyes resembling the lotus
flower without stalk ,
Told his younger brother,
“Oh lad , He is looking like the
great principle of God,
Who was beyond the three characters
Rajasa, Thamasa and Sathwa ,
Who has not lost its luster of wisdom
and which was beyond the,
Knowledge of the perennial Vedas and the
faultless philosophy ,
And which had
decided to assume the
form of a monkey.”
3784.He further said,
“we have now seen a good omen as we have
,
Now got this great Hanuman with us and because of that ,
Sorrow would not be there with us any more , pleasure has now reached us,
Oh lad who has a bow , If a hero like this one , is
doing jobs,
As per the
orders of the Lord of
the monkeys Sugreeva ,
Can we tell any thing about the status of the great Sugreeva?”
3785.Looking at
Rama and Lakshmana who told
like this ,,
Who had a very
joyful face and who had mountain like
shoulders,
That lion of the monkey
said, “Oh Victorious ones ,
I would now ,
Go from here and
bring Sugreeva with me , please
wait “
And then taking
their leave he went away speedily from
there.
3.Natpu Kot Padalam
The chapter
on friendship.
(Hanuman briefs Sugreeva about Rama , when they were
talking about the past of Sugreeva, Rama
promised that he would kill all enemies of
Sugreeva “ . But when Rama enquires
about the whereabouts of wife
of Sugreeva, Hanuman in details tells him about the story of Sugreeva. He also
tells him Vali will get half the strength of any enemy fighting with him. Rama in
enraged further and promises
that he would kill Vali. Ufortunately Sugreeva is not convinced. Hanuman
suggests , Sugreeva to test skill of Rama by asking him to send an arrow through one of the Maramaras.
In Valmiki
Ramayana Sugreeva tells Rama about the
dropping of her ornaments in that mountain
by a lady who was being abducted. Rama identifies those ornaments of
Sita. When Rama gets sad Sugreeva consoles him. Again the detailed
story of enmity between Vali and
Sugreeva is narrated by Sugreeva Vali
while entering the cave in the version to fight Mayavi that blood will come out of the cave .)
3786.That Hanumnan who was very famous and had a pretty
shoulders,
Which were
like Mandhara mountain , thinking all the good qualities of Rama,
Who was born in
the clan of Manu and thought that now they were all saved,
And approached Sugreeva who had very great rage which was suitable for war.
3787.And then he told
Sugreeva who was the son of the sun God that,
“The God of death who can kill Vali Who wore a scented garland,
Who had immeasurable strength Has already
arrived “ and,
Danced like Lord
Shiva who had swallowed the Halahala poison .
3788.”They (Rama and Lakshmana) are
like the nectar to the life in
danger,
Of those who live in earth, live in heaven, ,Live
in other worlds ,
Live in eight
directions ,who are in thought , who are doing work ,
Who are talking , who are
inside the eye , who have enemies
,
And who have great wounds
in the body caused by those enemies.”
3789.”They are the sons of Dasaratha who ruled over the entire earth,
Who wore heroic anklets on his feet which was
saluted by ,
All the kings who had an army of elephants which had covered their faces,
And they have great wisdom , great beauty and
have come ,
Due to fate and
would easily help you to get your kingdom.”
3790.”They are just people , they
have great mercy , they are firm,
And stable in their path of justice , they have greatness more than every body,
They have earned great wisdom without any one teaching them ,
They have great
fame and they have many cruel weapons ,
Which was given to
them by sage Viswamithra who is
the son of Khadhi.”
3791.”That Rama
made the Thadaga who was rushing towards them ,
With a great spear
roll on the ground and killed
her son,
By bending his bow
and he gave Ahalya , who had a
form of a stone,
Her very pretty
form, just by the dust of his
feet.”
3792”. When that Rama
who had a perfect body was born
first among the children,
Entered the city
of Mithila and bent the bow called Tryambaka
,
Which was owned
by Lord Shiva who broke teeth
of Sun God and Rama broke it .”
3793.”He who accepted the kingdom by one word
of king Dasaratha ,
Who had an army of horses with manes
but by the order of his step mother,
Who has great chastity
he gave the country
surrounded ,
By the ocean with conches along with all its wealth ,
To his younger brother
Bharata and has come to this forest.”
3794. “This
Rama destroyed the strength of Parasurama ,
Who had the lustrous axe with which he uprooted
all his enemies,
And pardoned him,
and he also destroyed Viradha ,
Who was like darkness
and took him away from this world.”
3795.”He also
killed Khara and his
Rakshasas along with their ocean ,
Like army
and rolled their heads down on earth by bending his
bow ,
He had
reduced the burden of sorrow of the
eight guardians of
directions ,
Like Indra by
killing all their enemies
and he has great strength ,
Which makes even
Lord Shiva and other devas greatly
surprised>’
3796.”This Rama
who is in the human form is no
one but Lotd Vishnu,
Who sleeps on the ocean of milk and
who is saluted by all the devas ,
And so make friendship with this very great one and he
is the one,
Who became God of death
to Mareecha who had unmatched ,
Strength who
came before him as a
magical deer.”
3797. “Even the
great Asura called Kabandha who
had angry shoulders ,
And long strong hands
and who used to kill all beings in all directions ,
Were killed by him
and then leaving his body which
was a liability,
And similar to Sabari
attained the great salvation and
became ,
Respected by
Devas, and these can only be told by people lke me.”
3798. “Oh son of Sun God , the sages and others from the
very beginning ,
And since
limitless days expecting that Rama
and Lakshmana would come to this
forest,
Were doing
penances to the best of ability
, got freedom from the tie ,
Of birth and death and attained salvation and based on that,
I would not be
able to tell what type of persons are Rama and Lakshmana.
3799.”Oh Lord ,
the ignorant Ravana who is the
king of Rakshasas,
Using methods of cheating has
kidnapped Rama’s wife from the
cruel forest,
And Rama and Lakshmana
who were searching for , due to
the penance you did,
And due to your having a
pure mind want to become friends with you.”
3800.”Oh Lord who is great in wisdom , they have kept mercy on us ,
And so Vali the son of Indra would attain destruction immediately ,
So start now and come with me “ said Hanuman who knew
the ,
Ways of justice of kings
and who was a counselor to
Sugreeva.
3801.That Sugreeva who understood all the words by his intelligence ,
Said, “Oh Gold like Hanuman , since I have you , who is greatly wise ,
As my companion , there is
nothing which is impossible to me
.
Come with me” and along with Hanuman reached
divine feet of Rama.
3802. Sugreeva the son of
Sun God saw Rama who was like
an emerald mountain,
Who had a pretty face
without the pretty ear
globes , with eyes which looked with coolness,
And who was like the full moon embraced by
clouds and looked like fully opened lotus flowers.
3803.Sugreeva stood there
for a long time looking at
Rama and Lakshmana ,
Who were looking
like all the luck of the creatures of
this world created by,
The four faced
Lord Brahma who was born on a lotus
flower ,
And divided in to
two divine forms of valorous heroes having huge soldiers.
3804.It became clear
to him that “Lord Vishnu who
is the God of the Devas ,
Had changed his
form and has taken this birth and has
come as a man ,
And so it appeared
that Lord Shiva
who had ganges on his head and
Lord Brahma ,
And various
crowds of Devas were defeated by the Human race,”
3805. Sugreeva
thinking like this got drowned
in the tumultuous ocean of love,
Created by
more and more ebbing love from him but did not try to come up ,
And was looking at
Rama with great joy and
approached Rama,
And that very great lord
, extended his long lotus like
hands,
And received him hospitably and sweetly said to him, “please be seated”.
3806.That faultless Rama who has completely uprooted
desires from mind,
Joined with the
king of the monkey clan for destroying ,
The Rakshasas who
have never- decreasing strength and who were,
The unsuitable
enemies of darkness and for
establishing ,
Various types of Dharmas
at the very proper and suitable
time,
And they also were
like the Sun and moon joining
together on a new moon day.
3807. Those
valorous ones who joined together for
the purpose,
Of succeeding in doing the intended act were
joined ,
IN the great penance
done in their earlier
birth and ,
The efforts they were
taking to achieve their
results in this birth,
And for completing
uprooting the Rakshasas who were
the bad fate ,
Joined together
like the known knowledge and
philosophy.
3808. When they
were assembled there
, The son of Sun God ,
Looking at Rama
said, “Oh Lord who has all the types of wealth ,
I have come and joined with you who is the chief of all the worlds,
And who has all sort of good qualities and so
who is there ,
Who have done more penance than me for getting rid of bad
Karma,
And if fate itself is going to tell like this, What is
there now which is impossible?”
3809 .Rama looked
at Sugreeva and told , “Oh sir. That Sabari ,
Who has done
faultless penance told us
, the state in which,
You have reached
this Rishya Mooka mountain and we have
come here,
Hoping to get
relieved of the great sorrow which benumbed us “
And when he
told like this the king of monkeys told
the following .
3810. “My elder
brother Vali came chasing me , who was born after him,
Extending his large
hand till we reached past
this world,
Which place was surrounded by darkness
and I am alive because ,
This mountain protected
me and protected
my rare soul and so
I have come to
seek your protection and it is your Dharma to protect me.”
3811. Rama saw with great mercy the monkey king who
told like this,
And gave an oath “In the pleasures and sorrow that
belonged to you ,
Excepting those
which you have experienced
earlier ,
I would remove all
your sorrows and all the sorrows ,
That come to you in
future are equal to me and you.”
3812. “ What
else need I tell you? All those who gave sorrow to you,
In heaven and earth are ones who gave sorrow to me and even if they are bad people
,
All your friends are my friends also. Your relations are
my relations also ,
And from now onwards
you are a friend who is like my
soul.” Said Rama,
3813.Considering the
words of the faultless Rama is the truth and are,
Greater even more than the Vedic sayings, the crowd of monkeys cheered,
And the son of Anjana had his hairs stand up which subsided after wards ,
Devas filled the earth
with flowers and clouds
caused Rain.
3814.At that time the lion like son of Anjana stood up
and saluted Rama ,
By falling at his feet
and said, “Oh son of Dasaratha who has
pillar like shoulders,
Let you and your
friend live long and now both of
you should ,
Reach your palace
and we desire to see you there.
What is your opinion about it?” “and the valorous Rama
said it is good and agreed to it.
3815.The son of Sun God
, Rama , and Lakshmana and the
lion among the monkeys ,
Surrounded by the harsh army of monkeys , followed
and greeted by the God of Dharma ,
Reached a flower filled garden which had Pongamia and citrus trees
and lotus ponds,
And which was better
than the heavens which is the land for enjoying
pleasures.
3816.In that garden
Sandal and Akil trees were densely planted and it had,
Huge crystal rocks which looked like bed of water , and
it had depressions,
Embedded with nine types of gems , long banks
with divine trees,
And the deva maids
were playing in the water and
swinging on swings tied on trees.
3817.Like
uneducated people standing before
the ocean of very wise
people ,
Who had tireless knowledge not
being noticed , due to the great shine,
Of the embedded gems in that garden sun light and moon light did not seem important.
3818. In this sweet garden with all these specialties Rama and Lakshmana ,
Along with the king of monkeys were seen sitting on a seat of pure flowers,
And with great
camaraderie started talking
about several aspects.
3819.The monkeys brought roots and fruits which were
all pure ,
That Rama who is the purest of all , after taking bath ,
Took his seat with great pleasure and became a good guest to Sugreeva.
3820. When they were
sitting with great love , Rama
after the feast,
Unable to see the wife of the host , thought for a
while and asked,
“Are you also
separated from your wife who shares the
family life with you?”
3821. When Rama asked Sugreeva like this , Hanuman stood like a mountain,
And saluting with
his folded hands addressed Rama
and told,
“Oh Lord who stands by justice , there is something that
I need to tell you,
And so please
hear it from the beginning to
end.”
3822.”There is an
individual called Vali who has
limitless strength ,
Who has the blessing of Lord Shiva who is the
protecting fence ,
For the limitless
ocean of Vedas and who sits on
Kailasa mountain .”
3823.”Along with the specially mentioned devas , standing before the asuras,
Making the rotating Mandhara mountain making its
form thin
Making the very
angry huge serpent
spit out fire,
He who has very
powerful shoulders churned the ocean of milk.”
3824.”He is the one who has the entire power of the four elements ,
Water, fire ,
earth and wind which never get destroyed,
And he had the power to jump from the
mountain of horizon,
Surrounded by the
oceans at the border to this mountain.”
3825. “If one wants
to fight with him and then
face him for war,
He would get half
of their great strength and
he daily,
Goes to the boundary
of the eight directions ,
And salutes the
divine feet of Lord Shiva who has eight forms.”
3826.”Wind cannot travel with the same speed
as Vali ,
The Spear of
Lord Subrahamanya would not enter his chest,
And the rule of
Ravana and his royal umbrella,
Cannot enter any
place where his tail has not entered.”
3827”.If that
Vali gets up and takes his steps
, then,
The mountains like Meru would get completely uprooted
,
And by his huge
shoulders , the sky, the
cloud ,
Sun as well as the
Moon would be completely hidden.”
3828.”He is as
strong as the angry boar
which carried the earth,
By its horn and
the big tortoise that supported the Mandhara
mountain,
And it is doubtful
that even if the Lord Narasimha
who split ,
The chest of Hiranya comes personally ,
whether he can subdue him.”
3829. “Adhi Sesha
with is completely spread one thousand heads ,
Finds the earth very difficult to carry due to its very dense weight ,
Standing erect
and carries it lying down all day long , but,
That Vali who lives
in Kishkinda mountain can carry it easily even while walking.”
3830.”Oh Lord who achieved victory due
to your great strength ,
The property of the
tumultuous sea water never climbing to its shore,
The face why the
very strong Sun and the Moon travelling
in chariots,
Are all because
they fear that Vali would become angry and
not due to any other reason.”
3831.”He who has
strength even to push the Meru mountain
Has an army of seventy vellam* monkeys of great shoulder strength ,
Oh Charitable one, due to the
great strength of that
Vali ,
All the beings are living with great unified mind.”
* one elephant , three
horses and five foot soldiers
3832.” Due to the
fear that they would be destroyed if Vali gets
angry,
Before the residence
of Vali the clouds do not
produce thunder ,
The strong wild animals
like lion do not roar in their caves ,
And even the torrential wind feeling that the thin leaves ,
Would shake there
, does not come near his place.”
3833.”On the day when he tied with his tail the very strong Ravana,
With his twenty
shoulders tightly , there is
no place that he did not go,
And there is no place that the blood from body of Ravana did not stain”
3834.”oh strong one
, That matchless Vali who is the son of Indra ,
Is as white as
the full moon which has sweetness and cold,
He is one who Orders
, which should be obeyed even to
God of death,
And he was the
first born son of the mother of Sugreeva,”
3835.”When Vali who had such a greatness was our king,
And Sugreeva was
our junior king and ruling over us ,
One Rakshasa called Mayavi who had clan enmity with them,
Became angry and
waged a war against Val.”
3836.”That Rakshasa who fought with Vali
, fearing to fight ,
Against the great strength of Vali ,started shivering and ran away with fear,
And he knowing that it is difficult
for him to live on this earth,
Entered a cave
which no one can ever enter.”
3837. “When that Mayavi entered that cave Vali was greatly enraged ,
And looking at Sugreeva he told, “Oh strong one , I would enter in this cave ,
And return after
catching him and you please
guard this entrance ,
So that he
cannot escape from here “ and
entered the cave speedily.”
3838.” After Vali went inside for the next fourteen seasons searched,
For that Asura in that
cruel cave with the aim of
desirable victory ,
Against that cruel Asura
and when he was engaged like this,
The younger brother Sugreeva became sad
and greatly upset.”
3839. “When he was returning wailing from there , we
saluted him,
With great love
and told him , “oh victorious
one ,
It is your duty as the junior king to rule over us and so,
Please accept the kingship” and that Sugreeva
who was sorrowing ,
Said that
doing so would be
a great crime.”
3840.”Then he said
that he would also go inside the
cave and follow the path of Vali,
And search for his
elder brother and if he is already dead , he would fight ,
With that Mayavi and kill
him and if he is not able to , he would die and started
entering the cave.”
3841. “Then the wise ministers who had mastery over
speech prevented him,
From entering the cave
, consoled him , cured his
illness of sorrow .
And as per the
just method of earlier elders and as per
the wishes of other monkeys,
Gave the kingship
to him but he did not willingly
accept it.”
3842, “On that day when Sugreeva accepted that kingship , we fearing that,
The Rakshasa would come out of that cave , brought all the mountains except Meru,
And stacked them
at the entrance of that cave and completely closed it .”
3843.”When we had completely closed the door of the cave by securing it ,
With mountains ,
we brought Sugreeva the son of Sun god with red hot rays,
And when we were
living on Kishkinda mountains, That Vali
killed that Mayavi.”
3844”.After eating the toddy of the soul of Mayavi in that cave
,
Vali was extremely happy
speedily reached the
entrance of the cave ,
And from there he called Sugreeva and since he did not get any reply ,
Said, “The
way my younger brother is
guarding the cave is great.””
3845.”When Vali
speedily lifted his tail and
rose like huge wind towards the
sky,
Waved his legs
and kicked ,, all the
mountains which had closed the
cave ,
Rose up to the top of the blue sky and
some of them fell in the ocean.”
3846.” Vali got out
of the cave and making every
one scared,
Screeching with
great anger reached the top of the mountain,
And Sugreeva the son of Sun God who did not have any differences ,
And who walked in the path of truth came forward and saluted the feet of his brother.”
3847.”After
saluting he told “Oh brother
, due to your not coming out ,
Oou of the cave
for a long time When I wanted to follow
you ,
The ministers did
not agree with me and
said,
“To rule over the
monkey kingdom is your duty.”
3848.”Oh brother whose shoulders have
waving ornaments ,
Being scared of
disobeying the order of all the
monkeys ,
I accepted the kingship
and so please pardon my
crime ,”
When Sugreeva requested like this Vali with ,
His mind completely changed told
several very harsh words.”
3849.”Greatly scared
of Vali who had won over his enemies
by his strength,
With stomach
churning , with our entire clan of
monkeys were standing getting scared,
He who once churned
the milky ocean , with the same hands
Attacked the body
of Sugreeva and Sugreeva became greatly
sad.”
3850.”When Vali
caught hold of Sugreeva and without
bothering for bad name,
Using his very
strong hands and with
greatly ebbing anger ,
When He lifted
Sugreeva up with an dashing him ,
Seeing for an opportune moment when Vali got tired,
Sugreeva ran away
from that place to save
himself.”
3851.”Oh Lord , if
that Vali gnashes his teeth and gets
greatly angry ,
Even the God of death
does not have a safe place to live
,
But remembering the curse
given to him by sage Mathanga ,
Sugreeva came
here and started living here safely .”
3852.”Oh our God ,
that Vali also made his own the wife of
Sugreeva,
Whose name is Ruma
, who is like the very difficult to get nectar ,
And Sugreeva
sacrificing his kingly wealth as
well as Ruma ,
Lived on this mountain
and these are what , that
happened here .” said Hanuman.
3853.When that Hanuman who did not how to lie , told in the proper way ,
About Sugreeva , that Lord Rama
who has one thousand names,
And is the greatest among Devas , Rama’s
lips of his mouth which ,
Swallowed the world at the time of deluge started
trembling,
And his lotus like
red eyes became red like the lily flowers.
3854. That Rama
who had thick shoulders wearing
pearl necklaces ,
And who gave
away the kingship that was his based
on the ,
Words of his step
mother , whose love had vanished
as soon as,
He heard that ”One who did not have any love usurped
,
The wife of his
younger brother “ , will he have patience?
3855. “Even if all
the beings who live in the fourteen
different worlds .
Come together to save the soul of Vali and desire
to stop me,
With an arrow in my bow
, I would recover the kingship
of monkeys ,
And your wife
and give them to you . Oh wise one ,
Please show me
the place where he lives.”Said Rama to Sugreeva,
3856.As son as Rama told these words the oceans
with very great joy ,
Along with huge
waves roared and Sugreeva who was like
the one who had ,
Found the other shore of the sea of sorrow in which
he was immersed,
Thinking that “Now
the strength of Vali would fall “but said
to Rama,
“There is some
important thing that we have to think about.”
3857.That son of Sun God
after telling there like
this started consulting
,
All his ministers
including that of Hanuman
who were experts ,
In justice
and generating ideas , in another
place ,
And at that time Hanuman the son of wind god told.
3858. “Oh strong
one , I could guess what is in your mind and I
think,
You are doubting
that these two valorous ones do not have the matchless strength ,
That is needed to kill
that Vali who has very great
strength , and now,
Please hear
what I have to say
and with faith follow
them.”
3859”. On the hands and feet of Rama there
are markss of wheel and conch,
And this great sign
has not been seen on any body
else in this world ,
And He with his
red eyes and hands holding the bow is
Lord Vishnu himself,
And he has taken incarnation
in this world to establish Dharma.”
3860. “ That big
golden and matchless bow
of the great Lord Shiva , who
had the power
To make any one suffer
, who got so angry that he
burnt the three cites,
And who by the kick of his feet killed
the very angry God of death,
Was broken by him
and is it easy for any one but Lord Vishnu?”
3861.”Oh
Lord , The God wind who is my
father seeing me had told
,
“You be a slave
to the one who produced Lord Brahma
who created,
All these worlds
and that would be sufficient
penance for you to do,
And that would
also bring great position to me who begot you ,”
And this Rama is
that Lord Vishnu and there is another
reason for that also.”
3862.”Oh Lord ,
once I asked my father “How do I recognize that Lord Vishnu?’
And he said, “He
would be born at a time when all people are miserable,
And the proof of him is
that as soon as you see him you would fall in love with him.”
And as per that , as soon as I saw this lord my bones start melting, Is there a need for more proof?”
3863,”Oh great Sugreeva
and in spite of that , if you
want to know ,
The great strength of Rama , there
is a method for that and
that is,
Testing whether
that tall Rama can send an arrow with fire sparks ,
Through one of
the seven Maramara trees that we encounter on our way “ he
said.
3864.When he heard that
Sugreeva with joy told “well, well”,and then he hugged ,
Hanuman who was his matchless
help and embraced both his,
Shoulders , which would even make the big mountains ashamed ,
And then went and
met Rama and told him “I have some thing,
Top tell you” and
Rama told him , please tell
that.
4.Maramara Padalam
The chapter on Maramara
trees.
When requested by
Sugreeva to show his prowess by putting an arrow through
one of the Mara mara trees, Rama
by his arrow pierces all the seven trees. The doubts in the mind
of Sugreeva disappears
In Valmiki Ramayana as pre request of Sugreeva Rama throws the skeleton of Dhundhubhi to a distance of ten Yojanas, Sugreeva then
wants hi m to pierce one of the seven Sala and trees then.)
3865.Sugreeva sweetly lead them saying “This is the
path we have to go,
And showing them the seven Maramara trees which by their height,
Would make the sky shorter and told him , “If your arrow goes ,
And pierces one
of these trees , the apprehension in my mind would go”.
3866.When Sugreeva who did not have any fault
in his mind told like this,
Rama the lord of
all devas , understanding the
thought of Sugreeva,
Smiled and
took with his very powerful hands the bow , stringed it,
And went near
those trees which cannot be understood
by wisdom.
3867.Those Maramara trees , even if eons change, do not
change themselves ,
And even at the time
when the entire world is
destroyed, they would not fall down,
And were looking like
the seven mountains which lift
the earth surrounded by seas,
Have come there
together and were standing
in a group.
3868.Those great seven
Maramaras made the full moon and the
Sun,
To start doing
great penance to cross its
top ,
And the Lord Brahma
seeing these trees would say I have seen mountains,
As due to their
head , He was not able to see
its leaves
3869. Due to
going under the shade of those
great trees, which have spread,
On the sky and
all the directions , the horses of Sun God never felt tired,
And were not sad that they were running
in the same way throughout the day
,
And in spite of
thinking we were not
able to find a better reason.
3870.Those seven trees
and the stars which have existed
for a long time,
AS well as planets
which were high up in the sky
appeared on its sides ,
And looked shining
more like the flowers of these
trees and the
white moon,
Which had great
luster had the black area inside it
possibly because of rubbing with
these trees.
3871.Due to the
branches of those trees which never
die growing luxuriantly,
They were suitable to be called as Vedas and since they were high
up in the sky ,
And the swan on which
Lord Brahma who created the
universes ride,
Which were in his land
along with the matchless female
swan,
Preferred to live
on one side of
those trees due to their height.
3872. Due to the fact that even if the
wind blows , its scented
flowers,
Its leaves and
its fruits and many others produced by those trees,
Did not fall any where
on the earth but fell in the
river Akasa Ganga ,
Of the tumultuous
big heavens and reach the ocean
with big tides .
3873.The trees having grown above the top of the head of Lord Vishnu,
In his form when he
measured the entire world in two
steps Could be ,
Called as the
tall Lord Vishnu and they
were more in girth than,
The huge Meru
mountain which is standing in the middle of the earth.
3874.Like the mind
of full of enmity between the son of
Charitable Indra,
And his younger
brother , each of those
trees were more hard than,
Any other tree
within themselves and their deep roots went inside ,
The white hood of
Adhi Sesha who was lifting the earth in the middle of clear ocean
.
3875.Those
trees had grown up and measured all directions ,
And they were
standing with damage over
the passage of time
,
They were being
praised by devas , and taller
and stouter than
The Meru mountain which is gone round
by the sun and moon ,
And each of them
was equal
to the other and ,
There was several
Yojana (8 miles) distance between them.
3876. That faultless Rama
after looking at all those Maramara
trees ,
Got a desire to send his pure
long arrow twanged
the string of his bow,
Making all the
beings in the far off sky and directions deaf
,
And creating a fear that they have never felt
among the Devas.
3877 When we know that
the sound of that twang from that
string spread exactly
,
in a similar way , how can we describe the problems faced by those who are near?
in a similar way , how can we describe the problems faced by those who are near?
All the elephants
of the eight directions swooned ,
all directions were confused ,
And that sound of
placing the arrow on the thing even
startled the land of Brahma.
3878.Due the
extreme sound raised by the string of the bow
of That Rama ,
Who destroys
sin , the devas doubting that
the end of the world has come,
Moved away from the places of
their normal stay and only the
brother ,
Who loved him stood near Rama and if
we start telling,
About the state
of others like Sugreeva and Hanuman
, they would get bad name.
3879. When Hanuman who is truthful and others thinking that they want ,
To see the sending of the arrow went near and joined Rama and when they were,
All praising his mastery
in archery , Rama the great archer
who made all beings as his slave,
Pulled the strong string of his bow
properly, and sent the
arrow from his bow.
3880. That arrow
pierced all the seven
Maramara trees and went further into ,
The seven underworlds
and since there was no “seven”
afterwards returned,
And even then it would pierce any thing which are having numer “seven”.
3881. The seven seas, the seven upper worlds , the
seven mountains , seven sages,
The seven horses that draw Sun God , the seven maids thinking that this arrow,
Would aim
everything that is seven
shivered with great scare.
3882.Though they were all scared
, since they knew that Rama is a soul like friend ,
Of Dharma they all
got rid of their fear and at that time Sugreeva took
The divine feet of
Rama wearing heroic anklets and resembling
The just opened
lotus flower on his head and started telling the following.
3883.”You are the earth, you are the sky , You are the other five great elements ,
You are the Lord
Brahma on lotus flower , you are Lord
Vishnu holding the wheel,
You are Lord Shiva
resembling the red fire , you had created
this world earlier,
And you have come
in search of me who is like a dog to
provide help to me.
3884. “Oh king of kings
, the good karma that I did in my
last birth has helped me.
By bringing you here and now on everything is easy for
me and nothing is difficult,
I would be the
slave to your devotees who are like mothers “ said the faultless
Sugreeva.
3885. All other
monkeys who were suffering for a
long time due to Vali said,
“We were searching for the God of death to Vali and now we have got him “
And they all drank sweet toddy , forgot themselves and
with joyful shoulders,
Danced and
sang and ran here
and there with great joy.
5.Dundhubhi padalam
Chapter on
Dhundhubhi.
(Dhundhbhi wanted
to fight Wa with Lord Vishnu who sends him to Lord Shiva , Who in turn sends him to Indra , who sends him to Vali. Vali kills him and throws the body from him
heaven,. When it makes the
hermitage of sage Mathanga dirty he
curses Vali not to enter Rishy Muka mountain again. Lakshmand throws that
skeleton to a ten Yojana distance .
In Valmiki Ramayana Dhundhubhi wants to fight war, with
oceans , Himalayas , who sends him to
fight with Vali .It is Lakshmana who demonstrates his
strength by throwing the skull and
not Rama,)
3886. Rama saw then
the ocean like skeleton
of Dhundhubhi , whose blood has dried ,
And was like the universes and the worlds which have got burnt in
ancient times,
And which was
almost touching the sky , on the Rishya Mooka
mountain, like another mountain.
3887.He wondered , “Is it the skeleton of the
buffallo of Yama the
lord of the southern direction?
Or is it the
skeleton of one of those
strong stone like elephants
carrying the earth?
Or is it the Makara
fish which has dried?”and
asked “You whose love has not diminished
, please tell.”
3888Sugreeva told .”He
who had grown tall as if to touch the
moon , who has horns growing up,
Who has the form
like the Mandara mountain , whose name
is Dundhubhi,
And who was Rakshasa
with great anger , breaking the ocean , went in search of Lord Vishnu.”
3889. “At that place when Lord Vishnu came before him and asked him,
“What is the
reason for your coming?’
Dhundhubhi told him “please
fight with me,
In the great war caused by anger” and he told, “Only the consort Of Ganga
,
The Lord Shiva who has a black neck due to swallowing of
poison,
Would be able to fight
with you who have great strength and anger ,.”
3890.That Asura reached
the Kailasa of Lord Shiva
with great speed ,
And when he was
trying uproot the mountain by his
horns , Lord Shiva ,
Came before him
and asked “What do you want?” and
he said ,
“Try to give me an endless , cruel
and horrible war.”
3891.”Is it possible
for me to fight with you , who has been involved ,
War from the very beginning? And so you please go and
fight with devas”
Said lord Shiva and sent him away and when he went and challenged ,
The Devas for war
, Indra told him, “If you want
to fight for a long time,
You do not come here
but approach Vali who is an
expert in warfare.”
3892-3893.”Sent by Devendra , that Dundhibi came with joy
to Kishkinda and called,
“Oh king of monkeys
, come and fight with me” and
started destroying,
That mountain in various ways, my elder brother came
before him ,
And when they were
fighting that war , both of them turned left to right ,
And right to left and no body was able to make who was who among them,
And those
fearless ones who scared the entire world fell down ,
Get up again and
became unapproachable to devas as well as asuras.”
3894.” When they changed their steps fire
rose up and touched the sky
,
The great sound of war cry that they made was head
in all directions for a long
distance,
The smoke of that fire
also spread everywhere and
the water in the good sea,
As well as the mountain series lost their
great prettiness.”
3895.”When such a great war was going on , the victorious
Vali ,
With the great strength of his shoulders uprooted
the two horns.
Of that asura
which very stout and were spreading to end of directions,
And hit that Asura
with them and That Asura
stood there ,
Making very huge
sound which resembled the
thunder,.”
3896.”At that time
Vali punched that Asura so
that the hit fell on his head,
And he fell down breaking
al his four legs with blood
flowing like river,
From his open mouth
and that punch was like
thunder falling on the mountain,
And both the earth
and heaven shivered and all
directions trembled.”
3897.”At that time
Vali lifted that Asura and when he was rotating him like a fan,
And walking here are there , whenever
the blood oozed out of
Dhundhbhi .
It went fell on those elephants of directions with closely held tusks ,
And those big elephants
due to that blood became red in colour.”
3898”.That Vali
crossed the area of clouds , crossed the place of Sun God,
Crossed the
lands where other
devas were living and
with his ,
Strong hands
threw that Dundhubhi to
places above that place
,
And then the soul of Dhundhubhi went to upper places and his body fell here.”
3899.”This evil smelling dead body went and hit the top of the sky
,
And when it fell on this place , the very merciful sage Mathanga
,
Cursed him which
curse is now useful to me and then ,
He related in
detail everything that
happened there.”
3900. That pure one , after hearing
the complete story, looked at
Lakshmana,
Who was an
expert in warfare with sword and said, “Son , remove this”,
And that
Lakshmana nudged that skeleton with the fingers
of his feet,
And that skeleton went up to the land of Brahma and returned back.
6.Kalan Kaan Padalam
Chapter of seeing
Sita’s ornaments.
(Sugreeva shows
the ornaments thrown out by Sita and Rama recognizes them and becomes sad. Sugreeva
consoles him by telling that they would fight with Vali after
they find Sita. Rama gets consoled. Hanuman tells that
unless Vali is killed and Sugreeva becomes the king they cannot
collect necessary army to search for Sita , Rama agrees with this and proceed to the place of Vali.
This portion is
mentioned as happening earlier than
the throwing of skeleton of Dhundhbhi in Valmiki Ramayana.)
3901. At that time
the crowd of monkeys shouted
opening their mouth,
Making even the thunder greatly scared and at that time ,
When Rama was
staying in that pretty garden
, Sugreeva told Rama,
“Oh Lord , I have
to inform you about one thing.”
3902. “Some days ago
, when we had assembled at this place ,
That cruel Ravana
brought some one this way , and may
be she was your lady?
He was going far above in the sky and
she seeing this forest path cried out of sorrow.”
3903.Possibly
she wanted us to convey
something like an emissary,
But we did not understand her who had long eyes which were,
fighting with her
ear ornaments and in spite of that
she made her ornaments ,
In to a packet
and with eyes raining tears
, she put that packet down and
we received it.
3904. That Sugreeva
who had sweet friendship which
was like
the mixture,
Of honey and milk
said, “Oh charitable one , we
have kept that packet safely
,
And you would know the truth when we give it to you “ and
then he handed over that packet.
3905. Rama carefully looked at those
Ornaments which were worn earlier by Sita,
And we are not able to say that” his body became like
the wax put inside the fire ,”
Neither we can see
“that he drank them Considering those ornaments as the nectar
to his soul “
And how can we adequately describe the state
which Rama attained at that time
?
3906,”Those
necklaces that she wore around her breasts ,
Appeared to Rama
as her breasts and the belt ,
Which she used to tie
on her hip became her hips ,
And similar was the case of ornaments worn on different body parts.”
3907.Shall I tell that
those ornaments summoned back the wisdom which had gone out of Rama,
Shall I tell that
it killed his soul Shall I tell
that it was cool like the poured sandal
paste?
Shall I tell that
increased the sorry of parting and burnt him? What should I tell.
3908. Those ornaments
worn by Sita who spoke sweetly like
the Naganavai birds ,
When smelled
resembled the scent
of fresh flowers and ,
When they were placed
on the shoulders , they were like the upper cloth .,
Due to their luster falling on Rama
they were like the sandal paste ,
And since they
covered his body by luster , they were
like a pretty shawl.
3909. The flow of water
due to the tears shed from both the red eyes of Rama
,
Pulled everything and took them away ., the hair stood erect all over the body,
His shoulders increased in size and should I say that they gave out sweat,
Should I say that
he faded due to heat of parting
“What shall I say of that pure Rama.
3910.When that Rama
who had big eyes , due the heat which spread ,
Like poison on his
entire body , for a long
time was not able to breath properly,
And with breath
and wisdom going away from him fell down
and
Sugreeva held him by his hands making his pin like hairs hurting him.
3911.Sugreeva supported Rama and not able
to tolerate ,
The great sorrow of Rama
, with a greatly sorrowing mind
looking at Rama told,
“Oh Rama with
stout shoulders , “I who had
bad fate , by giving these ,
Ornaments to you
have taken away your soul “ and then he
sobbed and cried.
3912. “Oh expert in Vedas , by searching carefully for her even in
universes,
Beyond Brahmanda ,
I would show you my strength and rejoin with you ,
Your consort
who has very great fame and so do
not lose heart and get tired.”
3913.”Why bother about
the twenty shoulders and ten
heads of the cruel Ravana ,
Who has done
bad and created scare in the Sita who is
like Goddess Lakshmi ,
Who posses divine
chastity . Will the seven worlds together
,
Be able to bear the
power of just one of your arrows?”
3914.”You please
be here , I would go and search by my strength ,
All the fourteen worlds
for the lady Sita ,cut the heads of that Rakshasa,
And bring the
lady Sita here,. Please see
the efficiency of my work.”
3915.”Oh best among men ,
we are all your friends ,
who would obey you ,
And do all your work
and this Lakshmana is very strong and
has,
Great strength using which he
can destroy and you are such that
,
All the three worlds
dare not disobey your orders.”
3916. ‘Though
they are deservingly great , they would
not talk about their
greatness ,
And they would show
it by their work and what else
needs to be done?
Is there a Dharma
which is separate from you
?Is there anything impossible for
you?
Without thinking all this would
you get only immersed in sorrow?”
3917,”Oh Lord who
talks only words beyond any doubt , Lord
Brahma ,
Lord Shiva who has
on one side Parvathi who has a soft
nature and ,
Gave us Lord Subramanya
and Lord Vishnu who has the wheel
on his big hands ,
Together may be
equal to you but individually they cannot be equal to you.”
3918.”Oh lord who holds a pretty bow , You need not fulfill my small requirement now
And you can do it
later and we
would now go speedily and ,
Get freed Sita
with waist like lightning who is being
tortured by Ravana , immediately.,”
3919.When the son of the Sun god who has hot rays told like this,
Rama who had the chest on which Goddess Lakshmi
lives, became clear,
Got back his perception
and opening his eyes leaving out tears like a stream,
Saw Sugreeva with great love and
told him as follows.
3920.”Oh Sugreeva who has mountain like shoulders, That
sita removed her ornaments,
When I of very bad fate still had this very
strong bow on my hands,
Among the chaste ladies
who wear golden ornaments , there are none who have done like this.”
(Married
ladies do not remove all ornaments when
husband is alive.)
3921.”When that Sita
with knife like long eyes is
expecting me ,
To save her soon , I am spending my time amidst high mountains,
Which have valleys
, ponds and with the
ornaments that she has removed,
And spending my
time only by wailing and crying and
Carrying the huge
bow with its string and I am indeed a
shameless one.”
3922.”When a
person takes along with him any lady with a sweet talk ,
If Some one else
comes and troubles her , he
should stop it,
And in the
ferocious battle that ensues , to
prevent dangers for her,
He should even
give away his soul and when that is the rule of the world,
I am not having
the power to remove the sorrow of
Sita, who depends only on me.”
3923.” The kings of my clan having several qualities of greatness
,
Dug huge oceans , brought ganges from heaven to earth,
Made the warring tigers
drink water along with the deer in the same ghat,
But I who have followed such great kings , am not
having the ability,
To remove the sorrow of a lady who has removed her
ornaments.”
3924.”My father removed
the sorrow of Indra and
destroyed an Asura,
Called Sambara to
oppose whom even God of death would find
it difficult,
But I who am born
out of him , am only carrying a bad name ,
That gives very great sorrow and
a bow.”
3925”.If the truth of my father who has beauty that ever one desires ,
fails,
Knowing that I would get a bad name out of it , I did not crown myself ,
And now I have got
the bad name of Ravana taking away Sita
who has a voice,
Which is sweeter
than sugarcane and how can I
get out
of it?”
3926. Seeing
Rama who was sorrowing and was
worrying telling such words ,
Due to the rare
sadness , Sugreeva, the
son of Sun God who had rays ,
Which are beyond thought
, Took Rama to the shore from such
an ocean of sorrow.
3927, “oh friend
Only because you consoled me , I have somehow reduced my sorrow,
If not would I still be alive?Is there anything better for me than death?
To get rid of this
bad name in
this world I would definitely die,
But I would not do
it unless I solve your problem .
3928, When Rama
told like this , the very strong
Hanuman saluted Rama,
And said , “Oh Lord having shoulders like big mountain ,
I have ,
Something to tell you, Please hear that carefully.”
3929.”Oh Lord who rules
, Unless you kill Vali with vary cruel
habits,
Make Sugreeva
the son of Sun God with hot
rays as
the king,
And manage to
collect a very huge army , it would not be,
Possble to find
out the place of residence of Ravana,
Who has an
army which is capable of destruction.”
3930.”Oh lord who
wears a flower garland frequented by bees,
Since we are
human beings with flesh
, it would not be possible for us ,
To know Whether
Ravana is in heaven ? whether he is in earth?
Or Whether he is in between mountains or in the place of
serpents ?”
3931.”These Rakshasas can reach all the worlds by the time
we blink the eye,
And in all places
where they reach , they would steal
everything that they want,
They would come like bad fate and like
that fate troubling us and
vanishing,
They would also go back. How can we find out where these
Asuras reside?”
3932.”This world is
spread limitlessly and searching Rakshasas ,
In one place after
another there are problems as to do such a search.
Several years are needed and so at one particular point of time .
WE should spread all
over and search for the place
where Sita is.
3933.” Our monkey
army of seventy vellums , like the sea
at deluge ,
Is capable of
spreading throughout the world and if there is a need,
To drink the
entire water of the sea or if there is a need,
To separate out
the Brahmanda by putting hands below it ,
It would obey the order
and successfully do it.”
3934. “And so , Oh
Lord who observes justice , you have to first kill Vali ,
And then using the mokey army search for Sita and that is the proper method,”
Hanuman said,” this is what I think.” And the expert in archery Rama ,
Said “Your idea is one which can be accepted, and so let us go
,
To the place of Vali
“ after this all people went to
Vali’s place.
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