4.Kishkinda Kandam(Contd..)
7.Vali Vadhai Padalam
Chapter of killing
of Vali
(Rama and others reach
Vali ‘s palace. Rama requests Sugreeva
to challenge Vali for battle and assures him that he would shoot an arrow at Vali from hiding. When Sugreeva shouts the battle cry,
Tara warns Vali that
, Rama has assured to help Sugreeva.
Vali who knew the fame of Rama
assures Tara, that Rama who is wedded to Dharma would not do that . Sugreeva fights with Vali
but is about to be defeated. He runs back to Rama , who tells him that he did not send the arrow as they
were similar looking . He ties forest flower garland on Sugreeva who goes again to fight with Vali. When Vali lifts Sugreeva with
both hands, Rama shoots the arrow and Vali falls down. With great
difficulty.
He pulls out the
arrow and finds out that it is shot
my Rama. When Rama comes near him, Vali accuses Rama of doing unjust
action. Rama that Vali not only drove
out Sugreeva but also possessed his
wife. Vali replies that they are not bound by the rules of men. Rama then tells Vali
that he is not a beast but a very
knowledgeable person. Vali understands
and gets resigned to his fate , He
entrusts Sugreeva and Angadha
to care of Rama , Tara comes
there and wails .Angadha does the
after-death rituals of Vali . Rama
grants salvation to Vali.
While Sugrreva
and Rama comes to the palace of Valley ,
in Valmiki Ramayana they see the
hermitage of seven sages and salute it. This is not mentioned in Kamba
Ramayanam . The justification for
killing Vali for Rama is slightly
different in Valmiki Ramayana. Rama says Vali is living in the kingdom of Bharata and he as
representative of Bharata has every
right to punish him and also since
Vali is a beast , he can be killed from hiding. When Tara comes to
see the dead Vali , the monkeys of
Kishkinda try to stop her and say they would continue the fight under
Angadha in Valmiki Ramayana In that Ramayana
Tara wants to die along with Vali. Hanuman dissuades her , The cremation
of Vali is dealt in great detail with
Brahminical custom in Valmiki Ramayana
unlike here where it is dealt very briefly.)
3935.Sugreeva and others
who were like male Yalis with cruel fearsome eyes ,
The strong
tiger , the fast moving elephant along with two young lions .
Went along the
path with densely growing , stable Aachaa trees , Moola
trees , AAthi trees,
THamala trees ,
cardamom and the Surapunnai trees , which had flowers like Garlands .
3936.That path had
swings in which deer like
ladies were swinging
,
And wherever there were no swings , there were sandalwood trees whose
leaves were waving,
There were
mountain valleys and if they are not there were
the front of the mountains,
Over which
clouds were moving and
in that places where there
were ,
Highly scented
CHampaka gardens with
leaves waving ,
And in those places
where there was no garden
there were golden hills.
3937.When Rama and
Lakshmana who were the cause for starting of Dharma,
Along with the
monkey crowds were climbing or getting
down ,
From mountain slopes
, due to sound of their heroic
anklets which by nature ,
Produce huge
sound , the clouds which were sleeping
on mountains with closed eyes,
Woke up well and
started travelling up in the sky.
3938. With clouds
running by the way of long
mountains , with water flowing from those clouds ,
The serpents dancing with open hood , deers along with
elephants running ,
the lions also went along
with them. In those mountain slopes
nearby ,
Where Karapunnai
trees grow and in the streams, Valai
fishes were running ,
And the water snakes
by nature get scared ran away ,
And along with them
black monkeys and tigers also
ran.
3939. Due to the
elephant in rut which had not properly
woken up ,
Hitting with great rage , very hard black Akil trees
and the sandal trees ,
They broke and fell and when they rolled and came
down ,
Making the honey that flowed from the damaged
hives
Made wet the scary
mountain paths and greatly
slippery and they walked ,
With great nervousness
through those paths.
3940.Those mountains which were climbed by valorous ones who were carrying the bow
Was full of heaps
of lustrous gems which spread
light like fire spreading light,
And the golden light spread everywhere as if it was pouring water to put out that fire.
3941. In all those
playful ponds which were by the side of those mountains ,
The Ganges of
heaven would flow, the bull would rush in
to the thinai ,
Fields where the awns
had been harvested , the mountain
streams would flow, in to it ,
And from those flat lands of the mountain the elephants would rush in ,
The sparrow would jump on those Thinai awns and monkeys
would jump on tree branches.
3942 That
mountain had the
attractive perfume of
cardamom which attracts the
devas ,
And due to flow
of water , the mountain slopes which are slippery
due to the flow of honey
Would pull down
the stars , otherwise
it would pull the rain bow
appearing on the sky,
Or it would pull the
white crescent of the moon or it
would pull the planets on the sky.
3943.Rama and other valorous ones who went up the mountain through ,
The mountain path
climbed ten yojanas distance
on that mountain,
And reached the
place which was like the golden place of Devas which had come down,
Where Vali lived
and started talking to each
other, “ What they should all do?”
3944.Then that Rama looking at Sugreeva told “You challenge Vali
for a battle ,
And when that Vali with matchless cruel poison is fighting with
you,
I would stand in
some other place and have made up my mind ,
To shoot the arrow at him
for only this would suit this
circumstance “,
And Sugreeva who
wanted to destroy the enemy and gain
victory ,
Thought
about it and told “This plan would give good result.”
3945. After
hearing the words of Rama , the son of, Sun who without break travels in the sky ,
Made the water filled
ocean with tides scared , made
the blue clouds in the sky
ashamed,
Made the people on
earth sweat and run away , Made the devas
of heaven confused,
Made a loud war
cry which spread all over the universe swallowed by Lord Vishnu
3946.”If you come to war
with me , I would kill you “ he
said in a commanding voice,
Stamping the earth producing great noise , folding his
mouth in great anger ,
Patting his
shoulders which were shining
, and that sound of war cry ,
Was heard in
Kishkinda city and entered
the ears of ,
Sleeping
Vali whose left eye twitched .” they say
3947.That Vali who
was lying down on a bed which was
like the ocean of milk ,
Like a cruel lion hearing the trumpeting of a
huge elephant in rut,
Heard the roaring
loud war cry of
that Sugreeva.,
3948. That Vali who had
mountain like shoulders , thinking about
his younger brother,
Who had come to fight war with him laughed
and the sound of the laughter,
Crossed all the
fourteen worlds and made beings
beyond directions scared and run
away.
3949.He who had pride like the
ocean with huge tides rising up
at final deluge ,
He speedily got up
and due to that speed , the
Kishkinda mountain went down,
And by the wind generated by movement of his shoulders, nearby huge mountains fell down.
3950.Due to his
anger the sparks of fire appeared in the root of every hair and got scattered,
And his eyes which
rose up due to anger sprayed out fire
which would make ,
The eyes of Badavagni
loose its sight if it
sees it and his hot breath,
Generated great
smoke which spread in heavens where the Devas live.
3951.When Vali
hit one of his palms with the other
in extreme anger ,
All the eight elephants which support the earth lost
their rut and pride ,
The collection of thunder lost their power and fell down ,
The land of devas
became bad and the displaced
mountains broke.
3952.The words, “I have already come, I have already
come “that were said by Vali ,
Was heard from Indra’s east direction to all the eight directions,
And due to gem studded
tip of his crown hitting the moon,
Many groups of stars
were scattered and fell down.
3953, Due to the wind generated by his getting up , mountains
were displaced,
And fell down after reaching the boundary of
directions ,
The hot fire sparks that
appeared in the roots of his white hairs,
Went and hid the
fencing wall of the globe,
The eyes of
god of death glittered and devas had a setback.
3954. The fire sparks that came out , when he bit his teeth and,
Were like the cluster of thunders produced when clouds dash against each other ,
And got scattered
all over and when he patted his shoulders and yelled,
The gems on ornaments
fell down like sparks of lightning.
3955. Vali then started making every body scared and was like
the terrible fire at deluge,
Which destroys the heavens , the seas in the four
directions , devas ,
And the principles
which are the root of everything
and was also like,
The Halahala poison
that emerged from the
ocean of milk.
3956.At that time
Tara who had bamboo like shoulders,
Which had the
properties of nectar , whose
hair got burnt,
Due to the fire
that came out of Vali’s mouth due to
anger ,
Stood before him
and tried to prevent him.
3957.Vali said, “Oh lady who is like the mountain peacock, do not stop me,
Leave me now, just like
nectar was taken by churning the ocean
,
I would destroy
the strength of Sugreeva , drink his
pretty life ,
And return back quickly” and then Tara told.
3958.”oh king,
That Sugreeva whose strength was
destroyed by your famous strong
shoulders ,
With great sorrow
, has not gained any extra
great strength and
his coming to war with you,
And this shows
that he has got a
very great support.”
3959.Vali replied
, “oh lady . even if all the limitless huge worlds,
Which have been divided
in to three parts join together
,
And comes before me as my enemy , they all would be defeated,
And get destroyed. There are several proofs for this, please hear.”
3960.”The big
mountain Mandhara became the churner , the serpent Vasuki,
Became the rope of limitless length
, Lord Vishnu with wheel became
a tortoise ,
And sat as regulating stone and the
rope was pulled ,
From both the sides
by devas like Indra and the Asuras.”
3961.”Oh Tara who
has the look of peacock and the sweet
voice of koel,
When those very
weak asuras and devas pulled the Mandhara mountain,
They became worn
up and tired and I
churned the ocean like churning
of the curd ,
And gave them
the nectar which came up .Can this be forgotten.”
3962. “Those weak devas
and asuras were all defeated ,
can any one tell their number?
Even the God of death
when my name is uttered would start shivering ,
So who is that person who has come as help to support
Sugreeva ,
Who has the
power to face me in
war, please tell me?”
3963. “Those innocent people who do not knowmy strength may possibly come to fight with me ,
But half the boons that they have received and half their strength would become mine.
And so how can
they become my enemies and fight with
me?
Please remove your sorrow now “ Said he
consoling Tara.
3964.Hearing that she told, “oh king , some people who have great love,
Towards us have told
a person called Rama has become a
friend like life to Sugreeva,
And has come
along with him, so that He can take away your soul.”
3965.”oh sinner By
telling inappropriate things about
Lord Rama ,
Who shows the path
of Dharma to all those who are
sorrowing in the world,
Who are
summoning the God , not able to find methods,
To destroy the
good and bad karmas , you have
done a great mistake ,
And due to the ignorance
of you being a female you told
this.”
3966.” To Rama
who thinks about the results of
action here and in heaven,
Would it give
fame to do as you told just now? By
doing this,
What benefit will
he get ?Will that just Dharma
which stands ,
AS some thing not
easily reachable and which
protects ,
The beings on earth
, try to destroy itself?”
3967.”When he who
got the kingship of the entire world
from his father as his right,
AS soon as he Was
ordered by his step mother , he gave
it to her son with great joy,
And instead of
praising that great Rama , you have told
such words finding fault with
him.”
3968. “ Even if
all the established worlds join together and
fight with him,
Victory would be
to his powerful bow and so where is the
need ,
For any other assistance to him? Would Rama who is equal
to only himself
Seek for friendship
with a monkey which does only silly things?”
3969.” That sea of
mercy Rama who thinks that except for
his brothers,
He does not have a
separate soul in this world ,
Is one who walks united with them and would he interfere,
In the war between me and my brother and
send an arrow at me?”
3970”.You please
stay here for some time , within the time of batting an eye ,
I would drink the soul of Sugreeva who has come with anger to me,
I would drink the soul of Sugreeva who has come with anger to me,
And destroy all
those who have come with him so
that their aim cannot succeed,
And come back again,, You please do not worry” and when he consoled ,
Tara like this, she who had scented hair was scared
to talk against his ideas.
3971. That Vali
with great speed desiring to
fight , with his huge shoulders,
Which were taller
than the border of the land of
Devas ,
Like the sun who appeared on the top of the mountain of sun rise ,
Became visible on
the top of that wealthy mountain.
3972.That Vali
who due to the strength of his
shoulders was similar to,
A huge and great mountain , similar to the great Lord
Narasimha coming out ,
Of the pillar pointed out by the cruel Rakshasa , Making
all those who seem,
Greatly scared
came in between those mountains.
3973. Than Vali saw
his younger brother who
raised the war cry ,
And he also
created huge shout which
made the
huge thunders ,
Fall from the sky
sweating with fear and that great
noise ,
Similar to the
feet of the black Vishnu as Trivikrama ,
Which measured all the world , Covered
all the worlds.
3974.At that time Rama told his loving brother Lakshmana , “oh brother,
Please see
carefully. Who among the devas , asuras , oceans , clouds,
Winds, the cruel fire
which are there
in varying worlds ,
Would be equal in strength to the body of these Vali and Sugreeva.”
3975. The younger brother of the Lord
while replying told,
“This Sugreeva for stealing the soul of his elder brother has brought,
The God of death here and has decided to engage in war ,
Which is hated
by very many monkeys and when I
think about it,
I am pushed in to sorrow and am not able to properly
think.”
3976.Unable to calm down his mind Lakshmana further
told,
“Oh great hero, it is not good to believe in those persons ,
Who go against Dharma
and without clarity try to
do bad acts,
How can this Sugreeva
who has come here thinking that
his elder brother,
Is his enemy with
an intention of killing him , become a good
help to us?”
3977.Then Rama said
, “Oh brother , please hear this
, Should you talk ,
About the proper behavior
of these beasts who are slightly mad
and ignorant ,
Similar to the
behavior of human beings? If
all the brothers who were born
afterwards,
In the womb of any other mother start behaving similarly ,
Would it happen that , all people praise Bharata as very
great.”
3978. “Oh Lakshmana
who has pretty shoulders like
the mountain holding a bow,
People who always
follow correct behavior are only
very few , for most of the people,
Do not care to
follow good behavior and this is the truth
and it is only proper,
To receive good
things from those who gain our
friendship because ,
Who in this world
can be declared as one who does not have any fault.”
3979,When Rama and Lakshmana who were
valorous and had expertise in war,
Were talking like this , Sugreeva the son of Sun God who roams round the sky
,
And Vali who was the son of Indra , who were both like
the cool , white and big,
Mountains that roam the world , similar to the
huge strong ,
Elephants of the different directions
dashed against each other.
3980.They both fought
like a mountain fighting against
another.
They fought like male lions who each had the power to kill,
And also be victorious , were fighting
with each other.
They neared to fight
, for a lot of time circled each
other from left ,
As well as right
and because of that the heavens
started rotating,
Like potter ‘s wheel
which was spun by the potter with strong
shoulders.
3981.Due to their shoulders rubbing against each other , the heaven,
Was not able to
bear it and when they rubbed their legs against each other,
Created sparks of
fire which with light , went on
the sky like lightning.
And they fought each other closely
like planets fighting with each
other and became angry.
3982. That Vali
and Sugreeva who were great in the strength of their shoulders,
Who were born to
the same mother , who had started to
fight for sake of a young lady,
Were like the old
Asuras Sundha and Upasundha who became enemies ,
And fought with each other due
to their Love to Thilothama who
had lustrous eyes.
3983.There were fighting like two oceans
fighting with each other ,
Like the Meru mountain splitting in to two , which fight with each other ,
Like the character
of anger taking up two male forms and fighting with each other ,
And we who have not seen the fight cannot say any other comparison to this fight.
3984. Due to the fire
that came of the angry eyes
of the monkey lords,
The clouds started
burning , Mountains started burning
,
The elephants of the direction became
scared and started trembling,
The four
types of lands lost their
nature, The devas who had crowded the sky,
Vanished from
there and went and hid themselves in
safe places.
3985.They
fought and roamed
over several places making people
wonder,
“Are they on the sky? Are they on the peaks of
tall mountains ?
Are They at the
end of different directions? Are they inside our eyes?”
And they bit and punched each other so that
they got wounded and blood oozed
out .
3986,The huge sound that both of them produced was
five times the sound of,
The seven oceans joining together and lashing at the
ten different directions,
Their punching on
the very strong big shoulders and on their chest ,
With very great
speed by their hands, resembled the thunders
at deluge.
3987.Due to the
strong Vali and Sugreeva leaping on each
other ,
And biting each other with the sharp teeth in their mouth ,
The blood from that places were
sprinkled on all directions,
And the very
bright stars resembled planet mars
and ,
The clouds on the sky
resembled the red sky at dawn and dusk.
3988.Like the
fire sparks coming out of the red hot iron rods ,
When beaten with big hammers , the shoulders of Indra’s
son,
And that of the son
of Sun God , due to being hit by huge
hands broke .
3989.Both of them pushed each other by
their chests,
They would kick by
their legs , hit with their hands with great speed,
They would bite by their mouths , they would stand before each other and hit each other,
They would hit with trees
and chide each other, they
would uproot mountains ,
And throw on the other’s head, they would shout and stare at each other like fire.
3990. They would hold
and lift each other , they would
hold each other,
Tightly and throw them up and then they would show their chest to the enemy ,
And with clenched
fist they will punch on the chest
that is shown to them,
And turning
swiftly to the right and the left with a
great speed like a fan,
They would prevent others from coming forward, they would step back .
Stand together
and hugging each other they
would fall down.
3991.They would tie the
chest of the other person with
their tail,
They would pull them making their bones break . they would pull with their leg
,
The other person’s
long legs , then they would untie themselves from
that catch,
Like throwing the spear
to pierce the body , with their very strong nails ,
They would pierce
the leather jacket which the other person wears.
3992.Due to their
uprooting mountains and
trees on earth and all other
things,
That they saw all
around by their very strong hands and by throwing them ,
Those broken
mountains and other things hid the sky
,
And they also fell
in the oceans where the tides
were turning .
3993. In the war that happened then
, each of them were not able
to defeat ,
The other but fought
the war and seeing the other
person is suffering ,
With the red fire
of anger burning from each hair
root , which was burning .
Like the burning
of the
grass in the forest they continued the war,
Seeing the fierceness of the war the devas
got scared and got upset,
And what else can
be told about the fierceness of the
war?
3994. When the Vali and Sugreeva who were like that were fighting with each
other,
Vali who had
strong long , big and well formed shoulders and
Who had the
strength needed to win over his
enemy ,
Using his nails that can
kill and his hands , like the lion destroying the elephant,
Made Sugreeva
loose all his strength
and made him fall .
3995.Like this
when Vali fought with great ferocity
, The son of Sun God became very sad ,
And approached
Lord Rama with a sorrowful
mind and when he was standing their bowing to him,,
Rama looked
at Sugreeva and said, “Do not be sad as I was not
able to differentiate ,
Between you two and so you wear this flower
of the creeper and go” ,
And Like that
Sugreeva wore that flower and went to
fight with Vali again.
3996. Like the
shining stars made in to garland and worn
, Sugreeva ,
With the flowers of creeper decorating his hand went
again
Shouting and
making the strong tiger
and the thunder of the
clouds sad ,
Speedily came
and beat and hit several times Vali,
Who had the strength
to kill the enemy greatly sacred.
3997.Vali with a doubt in mind as to how Sugreeva
who was defeated and ran away,
Has come again, looked at Sugreeva which would have made the God of death scared,
And laughed with great anger , with his strong hands as well as
legs ,
Beat , kicked and punched the son of Sun God In places of
great danger and made him faint.
3998. At that time the son of God with red rays breathed with difficulty and ,
Started vomiting his soul and from his ears and eyes
along with fire blood came out,
And not able to do anything he looked at the place where Rama was there,
And the son of Indra
was beating him again and again and making him suffer.
3999.Vali thinking
that he would lift Sugreeva and
dash him on earth ,
Put his hands below Sugreeva’s neck and waist
and lifted him up ,
And then that
Raghava took an arrow , kept it on
the string of the bow,
And after making
the bow suit his shoulders , sent it,.
4000. That arrow hit
the chest of Vali who had the strength of four elements,
Water, the fire that made the water, the strong air that made that fire ,
And The earth
which supports all these three , and
pierced it like ,
The well matured
Kadali Banana fruit which is
of excellent taste ,
Being pierced by a
needle and is there a need to
tell about its speed?
4001. Vali
whose strength of shoulders were
lost , who could not show mercy on
his brother,
Who was attempting to kill him by dashing him on strong
earth and who was great in warfare,
Getting disturbed
and fell down like Mount Meru which also falls
by strong wind at deluge.
4002. That Vali who was lying on earth , like a mountain uprooted by
thunder ,
And Who had great strength to destroy his enemies,
loosened his arm,
Which was holding his brother but was holding strongly the arrow on his chest.
4003.That Vali got up hitting the top of the sky saying
I will break this ,
Got angry saying “even before a black gram turns, I
would go round,
All the directions
and destroy everything” and also
think “I would,
Uproot this entire
earth itself” and start wondering “who hit ,
This arrow which
has gone deeply in to my chest?”
4004.Also he
would dash his hand on the earth
, would saw all around,
With fire sparks flying from his eyes and try to
remove the arrow ,
Which troubled him
by holding it with his hands, leg and
tail ,
And when he was not able to remove it became very sad,
And started rolling on the earth
with his mountain like body .
4005. He would start suspecting whether
the arrow was sent by Devas,
And then think “Would that devas do
such an act?” And also say,
“Do they have the strength to fight with me ?” then he
would laugh ,
With disbelief,
“Had it been done by some body else? And
conclude,
“This is an act
of a person who is alone but
equal to all the trinity of gods made in
to one.”
4006.”Is this
the divine wheel sent by
Lord Vishnu? Is it the long
trident ,
Of the God with black
neck? Or is it the spear
of Lord Subrahmanya ,
Which can pierce mountains? Or is it the
Vajrayudha of Indra,
Which creates
scare among enemies?” And
concluding that ,
None of them had ability to pierce his chest, he was mentally confused.
4007.He would pull
it by biting it with his teeth, He would
with great noise,
Deepen the wound and pull it from his chest and when he was doing that,
He saw that arrow
and understood that it would be
very difficult to send ,
It using a bow and
suspect whether it was sent by great
sages using power of Manthras.
4008.Then Vali came to know that
it is an arrow and thought ,”what
is the point ,
In my worrying, What is the use? I would try to take
out this matchless arrow,
Which has gone
deep in to my chest using my two
hands , tail and legs and ,
Understand the name
of that great person “, and he
made efforts to take it out.
4009. That male lion like Vali due to his rare and great strength and using his legs,
Took out that great arrow from his chest and seeing
that the devas , asuras and others,
Felt great feeling in their shoulders for who in this
world does not appreciate valour.
4010. The blood that oozed out of the chest of Vali
crossed several forests and mountains,
And making
sound like the
ocean with its like the clear and tall
tides,
It crossed several worlds ? Is
it easy to say like this.
4011. Seeing the
big stream like blood flowed from
the mountain like chest.
Of Vali who was wearing
scented flower garlands , Sugreeva ,
Who was tied due to the affection of sibling, from his
fresh eyes ,
Shed tears of
love and getting tired fell on the
floor.
4012.That Vali who had ability to break Meru mountain and
who was famous ,
Held with his
thick and big hands that arrow which was removed from his chest,
Thought that he will break it but
telling that is not simple so
that it breaks,
Looked at the
arrow deeply to know about the name written on that arrow.
4013.He then
clearly saw in that arrow the name
“Rama” which is the root chant
,
For all the
three worlds, the world that
would be given to the devotees,
Who completely depend
on him, Which is the
great matchless world,
Which is the drug that prevents the seven types of births in this birth.
4014.He thought
“This hero who had left the dharma of the life of a family ,
For the sake of us monkeys has given up the Dharma
of archery ,
And due to his birth
the clan of Sun God which
used to recite good Vedas,
Which used to never give up from time immemorial the life of Dharma .
Has now given it up”
and then he laughed and also
became ashamed.
4015.Vali felt ashamed, would bend slightly his head wearing a crown ,
Would laugh like burst of crackers and then again
think of all that happened.
Then he would think “Is shooting an arrow like this is also a Dharma ?”
And then like a
big cruel elephant in rut which was caught up in a deep pit ,
Where it can drown
and was lying in the slushy mud ,
He sorrowed greatly
, lost his strength and
became tired.
4016.Before Vali who was
berating Rama saying “if the one who is the head,
Makes a mistake , what
now would happen to people of low ability?
And that too
he lost his just behavior before my strength
“
Rama who never
erred from the path of Vedas and who
wished to,
Follow and protect
the rules of just behavior for the
truthful kings ,
As written by Manu. appeared before
Vali.
4017.Vali saw Rama
who was looking like the
blue monsoon cloud,
Which made
several lotus flowers open , holding a big powerful bow,
And who was like
Lord Vishnu coming from the land of devas ,
And Vali with his eyes shedding tears which was like blood coming out from wounds,
Saw Rama with great
anger , with fire sparks coming out of his eyes, asked,
Oh Rama who has
filled my thoughts , What type of action did you do?”
And continued his
talk like one who wanted to
point out faults of Rama.
4018.”Oh Rama ,
who loved others like a mother , who had
the culture of friendliness ,
And who follows Dharma
, Oh son of Dasaratha who
protected the truth,
And respectability
of his clan and who sacrificed his
soul for that purpose,
You were born as the elder brother to Bharata and if you prevent others from doing bad acts,
And if you yourself
continue to do that, would they
turn out in to good acts?”
4019.”You were
born in a great clan, The
knowledge that you learnt was indeed
great,
Your valour is
indeed great, the good characters that
came in search of you were great,
Is not the
Lordship of all the three worlds yours too and if
the world tells that,
Your great capacity
to protect the world is this
only,
And I feel that you
who knows everything has forgotten
everything and ,
Do things which
go against all those things which have
been told by me ?”
4020.”Oh Rama , who has great beauty which cannot be drawn in to a picture,
The Dharma of the
king is
practiced by all people of your
clan,
And when it is like that , after parting
with swan like lady born to
Janaka,
Who was got by
you like receiving of a nectar , you appeared ,
To have been confused /startled in that
acts that you have attempted to do?”
4021, “If a person belonging to the clan of the Rakshasas has done you harm ,
Does the Dharma of
Manu ask you to kill the king
belonging to another clan?
Where have you lost the culture of mercy?, What
deficiency did you find in me ?,
Oh Lord if you are
going to carry this bad name , who are
the people who can carry fame?”
4022.”Oh lord of mercy
, has the bad Kali age come only to
the monkey clan ,
Which jump and wander in this world surrounded by tumultuous ocean?
Is it that good
nature and the greatness that can be got out of it
,
Should only be with
people , who are weak and if strong people ,
Do hateful acts ,
would only fame come to them and not bad
name?”
4023.”Oh Rama who
does not need any help for
winning over the enemy,
Oh victorious
one , You did a matchless act by giving
the kingship ,
Which was the wealth given to you your father
, to your brother Bharata ,
And afterwards You
also did an act which is unusual
for you in the forest,
Is there any more better
act that is remaining for you to
do?”
4024.”The act done
by valorous one who wear sound producing heroic anklets ,
And garland of
victory is the war which brings out their masculinity”,
This is what
is specially said , Oh Lord of the knowledge of books on dharma
Written from earliest times , if what you did
to me is dharma ,
Oh Lord who does not get angry would
you consider that,
The king of Lanka
Ravana has done an act
of injustice and get angry at him?”
4025 .”When two people are fighting
with each other , both of them ,
Should be considered
as your good relatives and when
that is like that,
Doing act of
grace to one of them and shooting the
other with a sharp,
Cornered arrow
at the other , Is this considered as Dharma?
Or is it against Dharma? That act can only be considered as unfit.”
4026.”Your act is
not one that shows your valour and
it is not ,
According to the truth
and is not law, to the land that belongs,
To you my body
is definitely not a burden, I am not your enemy,
When things are
like that , Why did you
who has lost
Your character of
greatness do this act without any mercy?”
4027.”Looking at the acts of a person
without any bias , standing in
the middle ,
And doing acts of
justice is the one which
protects Dharma, is it not?
Instead of protecting
ourselves from doing wrong acts
, if we act
Taking care of the
interests of only one person, Is it
justice?”
4028. “For the
sake of destroying your enemy Ravana
who broke your security .
You joined with Sugreeva
and that is like for the
necessity of killing
,
A cloud like elephant becoming friends with a rabbit ,
Instead of taking
the help of ferocious lion which can kill like me .”
4029. “Possibly thinking that the moon which travels in the sky has a black patch,
You who were born
in the clan of the Sun God , have created
a dark patch,
Which would be
with you for
very many years to come.”
4030.”A stranger to you
came and challenged
me for a war of his own accord,
And you hid
yourself some where and shot an arrow at me , who came
to fight with him,
And took away my
life and after that
you are standing like a
male lion ,
Who has got more
strength than all those
who are standing here.”
4031”Oh valorous one who
attains victory , You were not
bothered about,
The rules
mentioned in the books on Dharma
, the nature of ,
The great
ancestors of your clan and good behavior,
You have not destroyed Vali but destroyed the fence of the Dharma of the king.”
4032. “When some one steals your wife , making the valour of your
heavy bow
Held in your hand to
deteriorate and making valour defective ,
Does your becoming
great by fighting with the bow consist,
Of sending an arrow
at the chest
of another one while you are
hiding yourself?”
4033.Like this shouting
by which he broke his teeth , with fire sparks ,
Coming out of his eyes
, That angry Vali told
the above words.
Rama who was
standing before him heard them and started talking.
4034-4035..”once upon a time when
you entered the cave
When you did not come out for a long time, Your
brother ,
Wanted to help you by entering the cave , but as per the advice ,
Of the
elders of your clan , Oh Vali who is having a moving gold necklace ,
Told him, “Please
hear what we have to say
carefully,
You yourself
become our king” and as soon as they told like this,
Sugreeva told
them “I would kill that Mayavi who has killed ,
My brother and
also his relatives and later I
would die myself ,
But I would not stay alive and rule
this country,.
The advice that you
gave me is faulty.”
4036.”Hearing that the
very able chefs of his army , and
the elders,
Who knew
everything due to experience and other elders told,
“Whatever might have happened earlier, you take this kingship.”
And because of that this faultless Sugreeva
happened to wear the crown.”
4037-4038. “When you came back
after killing Mayavi , he became
happy and saluted you,
And told, “oh father
, this kingship was
compulsorily given to me , by
monkeys of our clan,
But this is your
kingdom and your rule and not
wanting to rule any further,
Told him everything that happened
, but you became very angry,
With that
Sugreeva though you
realized that he was not
guilty,
You tried to kill
your younger brother and did not
show any mercy on him,
And when he told ,
“please do not do any harm to me ,
I am surrendering to you
, please do not find fault with me ,”
You did not accept
all that he told but got angry
with him.”
4039. “Though he
is also full of strength
, thinking ,
That
fighting with you
is not proper , he said,
“I am defeated” ,
saluted you with folded hands
And you thought
“you would give him as food to God of
death” ,
And so he got scared
and crossed the boundaries of four directions.”
4040. “When he
got scared and ran away , you
did not show any mercy on him,
And you did not
even consider that he is your
younger brother ,
And because he
reached the boundaries of the golden mountain ,
Where you cannot
enter due to curse, you did not go there.”
4041”Making some thing as act of love or getting recognition ,
Of being born in a great clan or
becoming great by,
Following of rules
of life learned by us , all
consist of,
Honouring and protecting
the chastity of wife of another man.”
4042. “To those clear minded intelligent
people ,
Thinking
that they are all powerful and strong ,
And getting very
angry at people who are weak ,
Is against
the tenets of valour and behaving
,
Against the
tenets of chastity, with
secure ladies is against Dharma,.”
4043.”You have not
thought about what is Dharma , its suitability and,
Its results in this and other world, for had you
thought about that,
Would you have taken the wife of your
rare younger brother,
As your own thus
destroying your greatness.”
4044.” Because of that and because Sugreeva is my dear friend,
I killed you and
even if some one is not known to us,
If he is a poor
man who is being troubled ,
I am of the opinion
that I should try to remove his sorrow.”
4045. When that pretty valorous Rama Told Vali
,
“This is how you have erred”, That Vali who has done
something undesirable,
Said, “All these rules
are not appropriate to us for,
To do according to how we feel is what is prescribed to us.,”
4046.”Oh Lord , The Lord Brahma who sits on the lotus flower with honey,
Has not
prescribed the rules of making
love like that of human beings to us,
Wherein the
chaste faultless ladies make love after marriage
,
But he has
created us in such a way , that we
love when we feel like it .”
4047.”Oh Lord who
holds the wheel which has fat of
enemies and the applied Ghee,
We only follow the
path of our mind and do not follow the
Vedic procedure of marriage,
And also the good
culture that is told by Vedas.”
4048”.Oh Lord who
has the matchless victory of winning over me,
AS per the culture
of our birth , I have not
committed any fault,
Please understand that” and Rama started
to give a suitable reply.
4049.”You were
born like all devas
who want to do good to all,
And since you are
conversant with the faultless and stable
path of Dharma
It is clear to
me that You are
not an ordinary animal ,
And so it is not proper
for you , who have worn the garland of victory ,
To call yourself
as a mere animal.”
4050.”The rules of
Dharma are not about the body with five senses,
But about
knowledge which is learnt by
analyzing , its good and bad,
By those five
senses and you who have great knowledge
about ,
The rules of Dharma
, after doing a mistake are trying to defend it
as correct.”
4051.”Should the elephant which when dragged by a crocodile on one side
,
Called the Lord Vishnu
with a conch and got
matchless greatness ,
By its wisdom and
attained salvation, be also called a beast?”
4052. “Due to his
mind turning towards
proper Dharma Jatayu
who is our father ,
For the sake
of wiping away sorrw of Sita
wearing golden bangles and who was like Lakshmi
,
Engaged himself in a great war and attained salvation ,Is he not the king of hawks?”
4053. “ Is not the nature
of the beast the absence of good
knowledge ,
Which helps to differentiate the good from the bad and living like as one pleases?
The words that you spoke just now clearly bring out that ,
That there is no
rule of Dharma that you have
not understood.”
4054.”If people are
those who do not think according to
books on justice
And judge that , “This is acceptable “ and
“this is not acceptable “,
They who are men by birth and form are
indeed beasts only,
And if a beast follows the rules of Manu Dharma , it is equal to devas.”
4055. “ Due to the
great devotion That you had to Lord Shiva
Who is armed with an axe
and killed the God of death by destroying his power
You got from him the power of the four elements of
Lord Vishnu.”
4056. “Though by their nature they commit
only crimes ,
Though by birth
they belong to the depressed classes,
There are people among them who have become
those who follow Dharma.
And among the faultless
sages who do penance
and devas ,
Who are great in several respects , there are people who do crime.”
4057. “When truth is like that , the greatness and bad fame
,
For people born in
any clan, comes to them by their acts
,
And though you know about it , you spoiled the greatness,
Of a lady who was wife of some body else “ said ,
Rama who never made mistakes in the rules laid by Manu.”
4058. Vali who heard the words of Rama carefully and understood them,
Who was the chief of monkey clan looked
at Rama and told ,
“Oh lord who has great and good characters, Let whatever ,
You have said till now
be the truth but tell me why ,
You did not stand before me and send an arrow at me
,
And instead like
cruel hunters hiding and attacking
beasts,
Send an arrow at me using your bow? Please tell me the
reason.”
And then
Lakshmana started replying to that question.
4059. “When your brother
Sugreeva came and surrendered to him,
My brother took an oath that he would send you
who has erred ,
To the lord of the southern direction and he sent an arrow hiding himself ,
To avoid the
possibility that you would also surrender
to him .” said Lakshmana.
4060That Vali who was the chief of the clan of monkeys , keeping in his mind,
The conversations that have taken place , became calmed down
and believing that ,
Rama who is great all
over the world would not do
anything against Dharma,
And changed his mind
, and saluted the lord of the Vedas,
About whom he has
heard and started telling
as follows.
4061. That Vali who had left demeaning thoughts from his mind , looking at Rama ,
Told, “Oh
Lord , who shows his grace like mother
to all beings ,and who stood,
Making other
people say that you are
follower of Dharma and are tolerant
,
Is it possible
for me who is like a dog to faultlessly
understand what you told ,
About the correct path as mentioned in the books dealing
with Dharma?
Please
pardon the bad deeds done by me out of ignorance ?”
4062.He again begged him
“Oh my father , I am a monkey , who
cannot think,
And differentiate between the good and bad and understanding this ,
Do not bother
about the hot hurting words by me who is similar to a dog,
Oh Lord who is the medicine even for the cruel disease
of birth,
Who can give any boon that is requested” and he further told.
4063.”You hit
me by a sharp arrow and at the time of parting
of the soul ,
Of the dog like
me , graced me by giving me true knowledge
,
You are the
divine trinity , you are the primeval God beyond those trinity,
You are everything in this world , you are everything ,
You are sin, You are Dharma , You are enemy and you are friend.”
4064. “Except your arrow
which pierced through the
matchless boons,
Given by Lord Shiva
who burnt the three cities and which made holes,
All over my
faultless and strong chest and has taken my soul , Does Dharma exist separately?”
4065.”Oh Lord who
is the matchless first , you who are all beings , all things,
All the six
seasons and their uses , The flowers
and the scent from them,
And Oh lord who is
mixed in everything and cannot be
separated ,
My good knowledge has told me about who you are and
what is your nature,
Would it be impossible for me to get the very difficult to get salvation?”
4066.”I have seen you who is the personification of
Dharma that is forever,
Is there anything
left for me to see ? That big fate which is
coming,
From the very beginning
is only up to today for me and the ,
Punishment that
you gave for my cruel deeds would lead me to salvation.”
4067. Oh victorious king
who has greatness greater than
the sky ,
My brother who brought you here for the sake of killing me ,
Due to the consultations that he had with the clan of
not great monkeys,
Has
attained the useless kingship
and has left the kingdom,
Of salvation to me, Can he ever do a better help to me?”
4068. Oh Lord who has a beauty like a picture, Me who is like a dog,
Has to get something
from you ,. My brother might
lose him
wisdom ,
And In the state
of being drunk the honey from all the flowers ,
Might do many things which should not be done
,
But please do not send
this god of death like arrow on
him out of anger.”
4069.” There is
one more thing that I need to beg
and need to get from you,
If some one finds fault with my brother as one who lead to the death of his brother
,
You please stop
them from doing it. Oh Lord with
great characteristics,
You had given word to him that you
would fulfill all his requirements
earlier,
And it is not proper for you not to get done all
that you have promised him.”
4070.”Oh victorious lord , I am not sufficiently lucky to do another good thing to you,
I was not lucky enough
of doing the monkey ‘s job of mine
in bringing Ravana tied in my
tail,
What is the use of
telling about the past
events ? and if I want to do
something,
This Hanuman is
the one who can get it done for you.” Vali assured.
4071. “Oh Lord
with the divine wheel, Oh Lord who has
shoulders higher than the sky.
Think that Hanuman is equivalent to the great bow that you hold on your red hand,
Please think my
brother Sugreeva as one among your brothers,
There is
definitely no helpers to you , who are like them and so ,
Take their help
and search for the lady who is
your wife.”
4072.Vali
after telling all this to Rama , looked at
Sugreeva ,
Who was standing behind Rama, and
extended his long arms ,
And hugged his brother
and said, “Oh son who has
shoulders,
Higher than the
mountains, there is something
that I need ,
To tell you which is good..Please accept that ,
And do not start sorrowing about my death” and he told further.
4073.”Oh great thinker,
Please understand that , The ultimate truth,
Which is selected by
the Vedas , all saints , Brahma
sitting on the lotus flower,
And all great leaders
of other Sastras , holding the
punishing bow ,
Has come as the
Rama with sounding anklets for
establishing ,
Dharma in this world , Without any doubt understand this truth.”
4074.”Oh Sugreeva
who has golden Meru mountain
like Shoulders ,
All the souls
who want to get salvation , which is the wealth that is never
destroyed,
And who follow the
penance of good conduct are repeating the name of this Rama.
They always
meditate on this Rama
,Please understand this.
If we generally look
for his greatness , only the
fact of my killing ,
By his strength is
sufficient. There is no need for any other proof.”
4075.“Oh brother
All those who daily do several
cheatings and innumerable sins daily ,
For which there is no redemption any where , if they happen to be killed ,
By this charitable Rama
by his arrows , would attain
great salvation ,
And what can be
told about all those who
salute his divine feet and obey
his orders.”
4076.”When fate
itself has come to help you ,
what is there difficult to achieve?,
You have already attained all the pleasures of this world
and heaven and if we examine,
What remains to be done by you now , is for
you to follow the orders by your head,
Of the Lord Vishnu
with Goddess Lakshmi on his
chest with a single mind,
Please live with
greatness in all the three worlds .”
4077.”Changing
the habit of getting proud of the
monkeys as well as their delusions,
Without forgetting the help rendered by the charitable Rama to you , help him,
When he is in difficulty
, if need be by even
sacrificing your soul.
.Without any default please do
all the orders of Rama who gives to everybody,
The higher state
of salvation and get rid of disease of birth which is difficult to remove.”
4078.”You leave
without leaving the divine lotus like
feet of Rama when you get elated,
By the kingship ,
without getting reduced of your wisdom
, Always remember that
,
The kings are
similar to the the burning
fire and do all that Lord Rama thinks,
And do not be
under the impression that mistakes in
slave like service would be ignored.”
4079. After telling all such good advices to his brother who was greatly sorrowing ,
Vali looked at the very pretty Rama who was standing
before him and
told,
“Oh son of the king of kings Dasaratha, he along with all
his relatives ,
Are now things under your
custodial protection” and then he made Sugreeva,
Move near Rama and saluted Rama raising both his
hands above his head.
4080. After saluting him
, looking at the face of
Sugreeva which was faded due to sorrow,
He said, Arrange to bring your dear
son Angadha speedily near me.”
And when Sugreeva ,
Called Angadha
the son of Vali who churned the
ocean by his hand came there as a scared
lad.
4081.That Angadha
who had never even thought by his
mind, those who had sorrowing mind,
Came and
reached there like a
matchless full moon and there he saw
his dear father ,
Who was lying on the flower bed of the mountain, in the
middle of blood flowing like ocean.
4082. That Lad Angadha
with moving lustrous ear
globes , with flower ,
Decorated tall shoulders
saw his father floating in the blood
,
With his own eyes showering sparks of anger and copious tears
And fell like a
star on Vali who was like the
Moon in the sky, which has fallen down on earth.
4083.”Oh father ,
You have not done any bad thing to any one on this earth,
Which is surrounded by
the ocean covered with
waves of tides,
By your mind or action and so how come you attained this great sorrow ,
And apart from that
, the god of death instead of getting
scared ,
On seeing your face
has come to take away your soul?
And now who are there
who can destroy without fear ,
the power of God of death?”
4084.” The cruel Ravana who had the stability as if
his feet were nailed to the earth
Lead to the
defeat of the elephants that carry the earth and have pestle like
legs ,
Used to become scared
with his heart beating like drums ,
Whenever he
used to think the strength of your feet and tail,
And that fear
has now gone away due to your passing away.”
4085,” Have not
the eight hereditary mountains and the peaks of the
sky touching,
Chakravala giri ,
now lost the scar that were created
whenever your pretty feet steps
on them?
Now if some one is
asked to churn the ocean of
milk with the Mandhara mountain as churner
And serpent as
the rope , who would provide that help and get out
the nectar ?”
4086. “Oh Lord Vali
with red hands and the
kingship who does not know
to salute,
Anybody else
except Lord Shiva who keeps on one side
Goddess with tender feet,
Because of you
all the devas and not dying and nor reducing
in number,
And you who have given nectar to
them have now passed
away ,
Are there any one left
now in this world who is more
charitable ?”
4087.Angadha
went on telling several such things
, cried with sorrow ,
And looking at
his father his mind melted like wax
which fell on fire ,
And Vali who was having
red eyes due to sorrow
told him,
“From now on do not be sad” and
then hugged him on his chest ,
And further told, “
This act done by Rama who is
the lord,
Of all beings is
due to the very good fate
of mine.”
4088.”If we analyze
without any mistakes , the birth
and death of all beings,
Living in all the
three worlds has already been fixed
at the very beginning ,
And due to the great penance that
I have done earlier , this very
good,
Has now come to me
and The heroic Rama who is the undying witness ,
To all births and deaths
of all beings came and granted
me salvation.”
4089.”Please stop
crying like a child
, if you firmly believe in what
I say,
Please salute this God who is the ultimate
truth who does not have
Any other
being greater than him has taken a human form and is,
Standing with
his feet on earth holding
his bow , who appears to our eyes
as Rama,
Who is the great medicine who completely cures the
disease of taking birth.”
4090.”Oh lad who
wears lustrous golden ornaments , never
considering ,
That this Rama has
destroyed my life, do everything that
would give ,
Stability to your
life,.If a situation arises when you have to fight with enemies of Rama,
Without any bias
support Dharma and do all that is
told by Rama,
Who does only
good to all beings and live
with him.”
4091-4092.After telling
several other advices which would
do good to Angadha,
That king of the monkey community who has
shoulders higher than mountain,
Hugged
tightly his son using his two
big hands and looking at King Rama,
Who was wearing
gold ornaments studded with diamond
and other gems ,
Told, “Oh lord with pure knowledge who cannot be
realized by people with untrue mind,
This Angadha is one
having fire like shoulders which would set fire
,
To the bags of cotton like black asuras
who have an army holding long spear ,
On which ghee has been applied and he has purity and honesty
in his work ,
And from now on he has
been mortgaged to you” and
showed Angadha to Rama.
4093. As soon as
Angadha fell on his feet , That
Rama who has eyes like big lotus,
As a sign of taking him
under his safe keeping , showed him
his golden sword ,
And told him ,
“accept it”, and as soon as Rama told like
this ,
All the beings
who were living in the seven worlds
praised Rama ,
And at that time Vali , leaving this mortal body ,
Reached the
world beyond the heavens and
attained salvation.
4094. Vali was
still holding the arrow of Rama and as soon as his hold became loose,
That cruel arrow ,
without staying in the strong chest of
Vali, pierced it, came out , rose up,
Went and washed itself in the pure ocean and after being worshipped by Devas with flowers,
Reached the quiver
of Rama, which never leaves his
back side.
4095.That Rama
who is the Lord Vishnu who slept on
the leaf of the banyan tree at
deluge,
As soon as Vali died
gave him the limitless
happiness by granting him sweet
salvation,
And holding the hand of Sugreeva , the son of Sun
God and Angadha went away
from there,
And Tara who had eyes like spears , hearing about the death of Vali ,
Came to the
battle ground and cried falling on the body of Vali.
4096.Like the mountain which is like the
bud like breasts being anointed
by Kumkum,
The blood from the chest of Vali spread all over the breasts of Tara,
Her luxurious
hair was turned red , and Tara
, fell like streak of lightning ,
On the chest of Vali who was like the hot sky at the time of setting of the Sun ,
Who was wearing a
flower garland and who had shining
shoulders and rolled.
4097. The sound of flute
, sound of Vilari musical
instrument and the sound of Veena ,
Felt shy as they were not a match to the sweet voice of
Tara and she became
sad,
Wailed , sobbed ,
melted , Saluted with both hands above her
head and,
Removing the hair that
was falling on her face and
again and again wailed
and told.
4098.’Oh rare
soul who has got great fame , Oh
my king , I who am practiced,
To depend on your
mountain like shoulders and live with happiness ,
Am in the shore less
ocean of sorrow and I
am not able to see its boundary
And I am also
greatly scared to see the scene of
your lying dead.”
4099.”Oh Lord who does have wavering attitude , would you
not take me also,
Who is still not dead
due to the sorrow of your
death ? Oh God ,
Who is the form
of my fate which still is angry
with me ,
If the soul goes away from the body , is there some
method to keep only the body alive?”
4100.”The Lord Yama
who has taken away your soul ,
due to your feeding him ,
With well scented nectar
, has got the ability to retain
his soul in his body forever ,
Do you not know
this? Or if it is not like
that , is he who
is not grateful ,
To you, who have
given him nectar , a person of low integrity?”
4101.”How are you
able to stay here without
going to each direction ,
And offer with
devotion new flowers at dawn, noon and dusk ,
And worship that
Lord Shiva with Goddess
Parvathi ?”
4102.”Oh Lord who is lying on earth , who is lying there with your mountain like,
Shoulders
completely coated with
dust , Is this what , you ultimately attained?
Seeing me who does not have ability to sorrow , wailing
before you ,
How is it that you are
not doing anything? What
fault have I done?”
4103.”Oh great one
who never utters a lie , Leaving me standing here,
Sorrowing and crying , you have attained the land of devas who do not
live in truth,
Oh Lord , When you
told “you are my only soul”
, was it a lie?”
4104.”Oh Lord who has
strong shoulders suitable to fight
in war,
If truly I am
within your mind , then the cruel arrow
of the enemy ,
Would have killed
me also? But suppose you
are living ,
In my mind who is lonely
, you would not have died but be
alive,
And so both of us were not there in each others mind.”
4105.”All those
devas who live in heaven , if
they had not forgotten,
The very great help done by you to them would have praised you,
“Oh father You
gave us nectar without eating
it,
And we became without death by eating it “ and did they shower ,
Fresh flowers on
you and come to receive
you with great love?”
4106. “Oh Lord , who would give even nectar if some one requests ,
If that person whose name is Rama who sent
the arrow ,
That would
definitely kill , hiding himself , has requested you ,
Would you not
have given the kingship and wealth to Sugreeva?”
4107.”Even before
you went to fight with
Sugreeva , I told you that,
Rama has come to
help him , but you did not accept those
words ,
And told “That
unbiased Rama would not do things like
that”,
And came to fight with your brother and you
who should have,
Seen the deluge is
now dead. When would I be able to see
you?”
4108.”If you go near
and attack , even the great Meru
mountain would have,
Become powdered and how is it that one arrow
broke open your chest?
I would not believe that
this is the truth , possibly this is the magic of devas,
And possibly the one who
has died and lying here , is
some other Vali.”
4109. Tara told* , “oh son , due to his brother bowed before your father ,
As per his greatness
and later his becoming the enemy of your father ,
Your father is no more , our happy life is shattered ,
Did you not see it?”
* Angadha was absent from there at that time.
4110.”Due to his rare strength , that Rama who holds a bow
that removes sorrow,
Has done an act
which is not proper to any hero ,
after deep thought ,
To all those great
people who live following Dharma
, whatever they do,
Would seem correct , Is it some thing
which is not the truth ?”
4011-4012.Thus wailing Tara , again and again repeated similar
type of words ,
Getting unified with great sorrow , without
having any sensory feelings ,
And was standing helplessly . Seeing her
state , Hanuman,
Who was just and
had ability to do anything and who was like a mountain,
Send that Tara
accompanied my monkey ladies to
her private apartment,
And got done all the necessary after-death rituals by Angadha ,
And later he completed
telling Rama all that has
happened.
4013. At that time
the sun who shines removing all darkness ,
Set on the
mountain in the west and that
face of Lord Sun,
Looked like the
face of Vali who was the king of monkeys.
4014.The Sun set in the evening and that soft natured Rama,
Thinking about the
state of Sita sat in one place ,
Became thin and sorrowed mentally and
With great difficulty
passed through that ocean of night.
8.Arasiyal padalam
The chapter on
governance
(Rama requests
Sugreeva to assume kingship. He is crowned by Lakshmana , Sugreeva requests
Rama to live with .Rama declines
but teaches Sugreeva , the
lessons of being a good king. Sugreeva
goes to the city. Later Angadha is sent to city .Hanuman wants to live with Rama but Rama tells him that his help may be needed by Sugreeva and he is also sent back. Rama and
Lakshmana climb the mountain and stay
there waiting for the rainy season to get over.
In Valmiki
Ramayana, the crowning of Sugreeva is held by his friends. At the same Angadha is also crowned as Yuva Raja . The
teaching of Rama to Sugreeva about how to
rule is not there in Valmiki
Ramayana , IN fact in that Ramanayana , Vali on his death bed does that.)
4115, “Thinking that
his son is going to wear
the golden crown,
The Sun God as a
prelude to becoming happy , for helping,
Goddess Lakshmi to
come out opened the doors of lotus flower,
Using his hands
which are his red hot rays.
4116.At that time Rama who was the
lord of mercy looked at ,
His very wise younger brother and requested, “Oh brother , go and crown,
The son of Sun god as per
proper rituals by your
hands .”
4117. That great
one immediately looked
at Hanuman who is capable,
Of Fighting as per rules
of Dharma said, “Oh heroic one ,
go and
Arrange to bring
immediately all that is needed
for the crowning ceremony.”
4118. AS soon as
the sacred waters and auspicious
things to anoint ,
Sugreeva as well
as the golden crown praised by all people were brought,
The brother of Rama
did all the rituals that are needed
to crown Sugreeva,
4119. With the
Vedic Pundits showering their blessings, with devas
,
Who are in heaven shower the honey filled freshly opened flowers,
That brother of Rama who was the chief of those good qualities,
AS per the
rituals prescribed by learned
people crowned Sugreeva,
4120. When Sugreeva
wearing the great golden crown saluted
Rama,
On his great divine feet
and at that time that Lord who stood
At the end of fulfilled
words , hugged him on his chest and told.
4121.”Oh valorous one
, you go from here and reach the
place that you live ,
After thinking do
all the acts that are needed to be done
properly ,
And then do after
clear thinking all that needs to be done ,
As mentioned in
the books of law and
along with Angadha.
The son of Vali , who died in the battle establish
yourself in wealth and live happily.”
4122.”Then along with truthful and wise ministers and councilors and with,
Faultless heroes
with good character who do work as per their strength ,
Establishing a
pure contact with them do
faultless acts and
Without going near
or very far from other
people ,
Rule so
that other people would consider
you like God.’
4123.”If there is
a smoke somewhere this world
has sufficient wisdom
To know that
there is a burning fire somewhere
and in spite of that ,
The deceptive
acts as
recommended by the people who
wrote great books ,
Is also needed and you should behave
with great culture ,
Even to those who
are your enemies after judging their character ,
And get needed benefits
and also with a smiling
face tell only sweet things.”
4124. “You also should
engaged in protection of your
wealth , thinking ,
About its greatness
and taking in to consideration
that it is even desired by
devas ,
And is in your
custody and also know that in front of
the world ,
Whatever may the
nature of sages and others, they
would be,
Of three types viz enemies, friends and those who are
not bothered.”
4125.”Do all that needs to be done to everyone , not doing
those acts that leads be bad
results,
Even when the bad thing
told about us reaches us ,
remove the bad words and tell only good words,
Telling only words of truth , not desiring objects that belong to others ,
Making those who depend on progress well and we
ourselves becoming,
Greater than them
, are those which you should do with great happiness.”
4126.”Oh Sugreeva who has broad shoulders , do not berate
others and trouble them,
Thinking that
they are inferior to us . Because I did not follow this
and found fault with it,
And due to that
I did bad to her
who has a hunched frame and who is called Mandhara ,
She developed
enmity with me and made me suffer
of poverty ,
And easily
pushed me to the great ocean
of cruel sorrow.”
4127.”Please understand
the truth “ due to ladies death would
happen to men “,
Without any
doubt ,
and to know this clearly ,
the act of Vali is
sufficient ,
And you also see the sorrow happening and bad name coming
to us due to those ladies,
Is there any
more need to tell more examples to make it clear.”
4128.”Please protect
your citizens in such a way that
they tell about you,
“He is not our king but the mother who protects us well. Though ,
Protecting like that
is normal habit of kings , if
bad events happen,
Punish those who
cause it without crossing the tenets
of Dharma.”
4129. “Oh friend ,
if we see properly , the two events of
birth and death,
Are caused by the
bad and good Karma done by that
individual ,
And you know about it . Even if Lord Brahma
who was born out ,
Of the lotus flower grown out of belly Vishnu
goes against Dharma ,
It would lead him
to his death and so not slipping away from Dharma
,
Would lead to
strengthening of life span, Is there
anything more that needs to be told?”
4130.”Getting wealth and its destruction are due to
sin and good deeds done by those
souls,
Even matchless
wise poets do not tell that there is any other reason accept that for them,
And so Oh Sugreeva, who is appropriate , in the war for pride between Dharma and the Sin,
It is better to do
good act that benefits us rather
than bad acts which harms us.”
4131. “Leraned men tell
that these are
all proper for all those who
are kings ,and so ,
Rule properly as
per what is told in the books after
proper research ,
And after the rainy season is over ,
when you come and meet me ,
You come along with your ocean like army and so go now ,” said
,
That pretty Rama
and hearing that Sugreeva told.
4132.”Oh charitable lord,
This Kishkinda mountain which
has streams along with trees ,
Is a place
where monkeys live . Except this drawback, it is equal and even better,
Than the land of
devas and so for our fulfilling your orders which you give ,
Due to mercy towards
us , please be kind enough to stay with us.
4133. “Oh
killer of enemies , After
surrendering to you and
after getting mercy from you,
If we go separately
and enjoy great wealth , is no different from great poverty ,
And so till the
time comes for searching the goddess
with black broad eyes
,
Please stay with us here”Saying like this Sugreeva fell at the feet and saluted
Rama.
4134. That great Rama after hearing this smiled
softly , said, “ For people like
us ,
Who do penance, it
is not desirable to live in a palace
besides , if we stay with you,
You would spend all the time in being hospitable to us
and you would commit ,
Fault in the way of ruling which should be done with thought and research.”
4135.”Oh Sugreeva
who merits to live well, I
undertook to live in the harsh and
burning ,
Forest for fourteen years and so I would not stay in prosperous cities where
kings live,
Oh valorous
one who has pretty
and strong hands , Is there any
pleasure that I can get,
Except with
Sita who speaks like the music of Yaazh ?”
4136. “When my wife
is living alone in the prison of
the Rakshasa, If people
happen to tell,
That Rama liked
the Immeasurable joy of living
along with his soul like friends
,
Oh Sir would
these cruel words come to end
at the deluge when all worlds are destroyed?”
4137. Me , who has
left the nature of those who
never leave the dharma
of family life ,
And also left
out the dharma of holding
the bow and fighting and
living ,
The sweet life along with friends are
not very good habits suitable to the great ,
And so I
would do daily penance
and observe strict observations with Dharma ,
So that all the
bad acts that I have done are completely
removed.”
4138,Rama who
stands firmly on good behavior , which
is easy to tell and
Difficult to
practice looking at Sugreeva told ,
“Please go and do all acts ,
That are
necessary of kingship properly
and as soon as four months are
over ,
Come to the place
I am ,with an army which is like an
ocean with great waves.”
4139. When the
king of the monkey clan heard
those words , unable ,
To tell anything in reply
and understanding the
implication of Rama,
Who was wearing the high garb of saints , with tears
flowing his eyes,
After properly
saluting him by falling on earth and went
,
To his city carrying
in his mind inestimable amount
of sorrow.
4140.Then Rama who is the colour of the
blue cloud looked
at with grace ,
Angadha who fell on earth
and saluted his divine feet
and told him,
“You become one of good behavior and without considering this Sugreeva,
As your father’s brother
, consider him as your own father and obey his orders.”
4141, Rama after
telling him further many such words
told him,
“Please accompany Sugreeva” and after
that that famous Angadha ,
Saluted the feet of Rama
and went to his city
and afterwards ,
Rama looked at Hanuman
and said, “oh pretty valorous
hero,
You also please go and with your wisdom help
Sugreeva ,
In duties
involved in running
the kingdom “
4142, That Hanuman who had the friendship that only
showers love ,
In his mind
without untruth said, “I who am like a
dog would live here itself ,
Obey your orders
to the best of my ability and do all minor jobs
“
And he saluted
both the divine feet of Rama , That
Rama ,
Whose eyes were
only looking at truth , told the following words .
4143. “If a
kingdom without boundaries and which had very great wealth,
Which was ruled by
a matchless king who had all regal qualities,
Is conquered by
another king by force , in that
rule,
There would be good as well as bad aspects and so , oh sir,
It can be
stabilized only by a person like
you who has wisdom and patience,”
4144, “After
establishing that kingship
belonging to Sugreeva ,
Who has all the good habits of culture and taking the responsibility ,
Of the job that is to
be done for me ,
as there is no one else ,
And so you who is
Dharma personified , as per my
request ,
Please go to
the city of Sugreeva “ he said.
4145,When that Rama who is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who held the wheel,
Told such
words to Hanuman , He told Rama “Long live and I will do like that ,
If that is your order
“ saluted him and went
towards Kishkinda ,
And Rama the lord
of several earlier deluges along with his brother,
Who was like an elephant with the mask , reached another tall mountains.
4146. AS per the
orders of Rama the son of sun god went
to Kishkinda and went inside
,
His own private
apartments and with honourable
ministers and relatives,
Standing around
him , saluted Tara who was
like a mother to him ,
And considering that the advices given
by his elder brother as his father
,
Started
ruling that place in a
very good manner.
4147. With all the monkey heroes like relatives doing all that is needed ,
He assumed that kingship which was blessed with all wealth,,
And that kingdom
extended up to the end of all
directions ,
And he ordered
the valorous Angadha
with inestimable strength ,
To help in the
rule as the prince of that kingdom
And along with al
relatives, with wealth earned as per
Dharma,
That Sugreeva
happily and sweetly ruled Kishkinda and then.
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