5.Sundara
Kandam(contd)
9. Pancha Senapathikal
vadhai padalam
Chapter on killing
of the five commanders of
the army.
(Five commanders
of Ravana who were very
valorous taking permission of Ravana
with a huge army go to fight with
Hanuman. All of them including their huge army is killed by
Hanuman.
IN Valmiki
Ramayana after the death of
Jambumali seven sons of ministers go to war with Hanuman and are killed. This is not
there in the Kamba Ramayanam. Also in Valmiki Ramayana Ravana advises his five commanders to be careful while fighting with
Hanuman and sent by Ravana but in Kamba Ramayana they
tell Ravana that they will go
and fight.)
5601. Those commanders
looked at Ravana and told , “Oh very strong one
If you go to fight
a war with a monkey that eats
a spider , then the water of
rut,
Which had completely dried from the eight elephants
of direction,
Similar to
the the water of the streams of the
huge mountains getting dried
Due to heat of sun
in summer , by Seeing
the fire that rose
from your eyes ,
Which weakened them
, would regain their
strength , is it not?”
5602”.If you go to war
with that silly monkey
which is like the extremely angry ,
Garuda with very pretty wings and with very great strength going
to war,
With a crane due
to anger , and then the Kailasa
mountain ,
Which shivers
day and night thinking
about the power of your great shoulders,
Wearing moving
garland , Would lose
its great sorrow.”
5603. “What benefit would you get by your going to war with a mere monkey?
They say that those who are about to lose their
strength are those ,
Who do not
foresee about what would happen and also those ,
Who do not bother
to hear about it , if told by somebody else.
For the valour of
a person what other worse
thing can result?
If you go to war with a monkey , even the trinity ,
Who have stopped
opposing you in war would smile.”
5604. “Oh king
, apart from this , it would seem you do not have proper assistants.
Earlier you had
send people who were not strong
and those who can never get victory?
If you want to see
a good act now , You would desire to send us for the war,”
Saying this
those commanders saluted him and Ravana
agreed to their proposal.
5605. Those five
commanders who were similar to
the leaders of the three
worlds,
Saluted Ravana by
falling on earth so that their
Tilak touched the earth ,
And then they came
out of the palace and
ordered that chariots
,
Which are not easily damaged , horses, elephants and
Asura soldiers,
Who can fight closely should
assemble there with great speed.
5606. Those who were
announcers who beat the drum
climbed on the elephant ,
And beat the
drum and a huge Asura army started spreading like
a sea with foam,
On all directions , and
like the cloud which rains without
break , war drums were beaten.
And like the rainbow appearing in the sky
, the weapons for the army came
near.
5607. The huge
white flags of the Rakshasa army which had
masts which pierce the clouds,
And which were as
white as the waves of the river Ganges
in the sky,
Similar to the
fame of enemies of Hanuman , who had reached ,
Heaven due to the great
anger of Hanuman
, waved in the wind.
5608.Those Rakshasa
warriors tied heroic
anklets made of gold on their ankles ,
Tied quivers filled with arrows on their backs and also,
Wore
armours in a proper manner, The horses were got ready,
With proper seats, Chariots were got ready and elephants were
decorated.
5609.The water of rut flowing from the elephants gave rise
to rivers,
The wheels of the chariots ran
and were coated with slush of
mud,
And that slush
was turned in to dust by the hoofs
of the horses,
And the foam
flowing out the mouth of those horses with rein split differently.
5610.The sound produced
by the speeding chariots , the
neighing sound ,
Of the horses , the trumpeting sound
of cruel elephants ,
The sound produced
by the heroic anklets and
the sound of musical instruments,
Were producing
three times more sound than the
tumultuous sea .
5611.The number of chariots with wheels was fifty thousand ,
The number of elephants with ornamental masks was also the
same ,
The number of
horses that run like wind at the
time of final deluge ,
Was double that
number, The number of foot
soldiers who had big ,
Shoulders and
best weapons was double that
of number of horses.
5612.Whenever the
commanders summoned and called
, the density,
Of that cruel army
increased and due to being no
place for them,
To move about
and when the weapons
that were sharpened in the
smithy ,
Which had cruel luster
, rubbed against each other the
sparks of fire ,
That was raised from them
went up to burn the collection of clouds.
5613.The pretty
bells that were hanging on both
sides on the great,
Beautified elephants
raised huge sound , similar
to the thunder ,
Of the clouds ,
the crowd of their eye balls shined
like fire ,
And the crowd of
cool , gems worn over their cheeks ,
Were similar to
the full moon coming out of the clouds.
5614.The ladies who had black curled hair and
the people ,
Who had worn bangles on their hands , their mothers,
AS well as relations of those soldiers
who had assembled there,
Were trying to stop
the soldiers from going to
the war , told
“That no one who
had gone to the war with that monkey
ever returned,
And if you want to
give your souls to that monkey , let all of us go together.”
And later
cried , wailed and became
sad.
5615. Those five
commanders looking as if the five
elements have joined together,
Joined in the
middle of the pretty ocean of army that was spread on all sides ,
And they proceeded speedily in a well
made pretty chariot like
Sun God,
And were comparable
to Narasimha who had two types of bodies.
5616.They went preceded
by the sound of various
musical instruments .
They went
creating sparks of fire again and again and they would twang
.
Their curved bow
with arrows making sound like
thunder ,
They were
stronger than Devas and
Sages who taught the art of war ,
To the suitable
people and were like the union of
Five sense organs
which were enemies
to the soul.
5617. The victory giving
Vajrayudha of Indra, Varuna’s
weapon of rope,
The dandayudha with tip of fire belonging to Yama , the lord of faultless south,
The matchless big trident
of Lord Shiva and other such great weapons ,
Would not able to even make a scar of needle
on their big shoulders.
5618. They had
tied a mark of valour on
their foreheads ,
Which was made by
tying in frequent intervals,
The feather of peacock
belonging to Lord Subramanya the
killer of Soora Padma.
And the
feather of swan which is the steed of Lord Brahma, who created
the world.
5619.They wore pretty ear ornaments cutting the tusk of
those elephants of directions ,
Whose tusks were
broken with a fight with Ravana , whose
shoulders,
Were
decorated with golden
ornaments and were wearing mask of victory ,
Which was made by
the lightning like masks worn by
those ,
Eight elephants of direction which were
great and proud.
5620.They wore
ornaments of gold which was
brought in loads ,
When they attacked
the long city of Alakapuri which belonged to
Khubera ,
Who was blessed
with great wealth , and stole all his wealth ,
When Khubera showing his back ran away thinking
that it is his fate.
5621.When Devendra
was defeated by Ravana and having
lost him when he was going back,
On his very strong
elephant called Iravatha with great speed , they all,
Hung catching hold
of the tail of the elephant
and told Indra,
“If you are strong enough go forward
with your elephant” and prevented him from going.
5622.When the God
of death as per orders of the first Brahmin(Brahma),
Weighed the
Karma of beings and
as per the fate manage their life,
And when he was
feeling that city of Lanka came
under his purview ,
Making the black Ravana
angry , to remove
the anger of Ravana,
These
commanders tied the hands and leg
of Yama and put him in prison.
5623. They
were having broad chests which made
fun of the mountains ,
They had long
shoulders which teased
the tides of huge ocean,
They were
killers who were much greater than god
of death himself,
Their eyes
spit red
fire making fun of the
bellows of black smiths.
5624. When the deluge
comes near for the sake of encircling the world ,
When the fire at
time of deluge which makes great sound burns,
When the sound
from the places of the elephant of
direction goes up,
When the wind of
deluge rises up and blows or when the
,
Great oceans join
together and rises , they would not bother
due to their strength.
5625,Like this when those five commanders along with
a rising army.
With great strength
encircled that arched gate
and ,
And divided
their army in to formations
standing round that gate ,
Hanuman saw their preparedness for battle clearly.
5626.Indra and other devas suddenly
seeing the great strength of the
five commanders,
The greatness of their army and
Hanuman standing all alone ,
Felt great mercy on Hanuman and also sorrow as well as shivering.
5627.Hanuman who
had leant several books
with happiness and joy,
Thought that it
is certain that they would all be
destroyed by day time,
And then he saw
with great attention the army on all four sides and also his shoulders.
5628.Those
numerous Rakshasas doubted
“Did this monkey
With dirty head
win in the great war and defeated ,
Those strong
Rakshasas who have ,
Completely
destroyed the fame
of the Devas.”
5629. At that time
standing on the arch brought from
The entrance
of the town of the city of Indra ,
To that Asoka
Vana which was deep red in colour .
Hanuman increased
the size of his form and even crossed the sky.
5630. Those Rakshasas
who were only
habituated ,
In doing evil deeds
with great surprise saw Hanuman with huge form,
Became greatly angry and started shooting arrows
at Hanuman,
Ana at that
time the conches boomed and drums produced great sound.
5631.Those valorous soldiers of that army shot
numberless weapons ,
Which were spitting out
fire sparks aiming at Hanuman,
When they neared
the dense hair of Hanuman ,
caressed him,,
So that his iching
vanished and Hanuman with joy ,
Appeared to be
sleeping , closing his eyes.
5632. Those
valorous Rakshasas became greatly proud and came near Hanuman,
And changed due to great anger and with speed threw many weapons on Hanuman,
With a view to kill him
and Hanuman thought “I would destroy
these people,
So that other soldiers come to fight “ and again took the iron staff in his hand.
5633. Using the
iron rod Hanuman destroyed all
weapons thrown at him ,
Killed all soldiers
who came to fight with anger ,
killed the horses which dashed against him,
Broke the chariots
with high flags which came on his
way ,
And also killed
those cloud like elephants which were sent against him.
5634.He would
break the long tusks of elephants in rut and beat
big chariots,
With them, He would take the wheels of chariots which have come out , use them,
And make soldiers fall down, rolling,
and using the sword,
Of those
fallen soldiers he would cut the horses wearing garland of bells.
5635. He would lift
two chariots by two of his
hands and by hitting,
With them roll the two elephants and kill them. He would lift ,
Those two elephants
by his hands and shatter
the horses,
Which were
coming on both his sides.
5636,Also Hanuman lifted a mountain near by and using them,
Grind on the
earth and destroy the thousand chariots in the battle field,
And within two Mathras of time , he would hit ,
One thousand
elephants and completely
destroy them.
5637,He would kick on the legs of cruel elephants
,which were ,
Sent against him
by his enemies, He would rotate the
chariots,
He would stamp and
destroy big horses, He would rub on earth,
The valorous soldiers who come against him and then he
would use,
The big rod and make them in to a paste ,He
would jump ,
On the heads of
those soldiers. He would bite them and
also hit them.
5638.Also that Hanuman
would throw chariots with horses
and also,
Elephants
and fill up the directions as well
the broad sky and scatter them,
He would grind with his
big hands the valorous Asuras ,
Riding on horses
with rein and kill them both.
5639.When he was throwing the red eyed fire emitting cruel elephants
By using his very
big hands on to the sky , they with good big flags ,
Used to fall on the ocean and were like the sinking big ships
with masts.
5640. The chariots attached with horses wearing garland of bells ,
Thrown by his very
strong hands by that matchless
Hanuman ,
Along with their wheels
in to the sea appeared ,
Like the sun god riding
on his chariot in the sea.
5641, Numerous horses
which were thrown by
Hanuman ,
Got attached to the sky for a while and
fell down .
On the surface of
the ocean with big tides,
Were vomiting blood
from their mouth ,
And appeared as if
they had fire in the tip of their mouth.
5642. Those
Rakshasa warriors who were
tied tightly ,
By the tail of Hanuman
and then thrown to a long
distance ,
Fell on the
ocean and were looking similar to the spinning,
Mandhara mountain , churned
by using a serpent.,
5643.The flow of blood
which was going with great
speed ,
Were dragging the elephants with flowing rut water
,
The chariots and
the horses to the very big cruel sea.
5644. The hill of
corpses of those
dead Rakshasas,
Who had teeth like
the crescent of the moon , cave like
mouth,
And eyes which
spit out fire as well as blood stained water
,
Which were covered by weapons removed from the sheath
Completely hid
the fish like arch on which Hanuman
was sitting.
5645. There were
mountains which could be used by Hanuman,
Trees were also there , there were several type of iron rods available .
There are also
souls for these weapons
to take away and ,
So would any of
them escape from Hanuman without being killed?
5646.Using a matchless
iron pillar which was shining
like the axe,
Which was held by
Shiva who is the father of Lord Subrahamanya.
And who had an eye
on his forehead , Hanuman killed , the entire
,
Rakshasa army , who were
all wearing heroic anklets.
5647.The devas
became happy seeing that the
entire army,
Was completely wiped out, The City of Lanka surrounded ,
By the ocean became
confused and the sound of crying
,
Was heard on all
shores of the sea and at that time,
Those five commanders
who had big shoulders arrived ,
5648.Due to being pulled
by the mounds of sand,
In between the
streams of blood , the wheels ,
Of the chariots of
the five commanders got stuck ,
But still they proceeded
and covered Hanuman ,
With thousands of arrows
and that son of Anjana,
Stood within
the rain of arrows without being scared.
5649.He
powdered all those cruel arrows sent by those commanders,
Just by using his hand
and then destroyed one strong
machine ,
Which was
fixed on one of those
chariots, by making a hole,
And fixed on the
centre part of that chariot.
5650. Even before that chariot was destroyed, that Rakshasa ,
Left that chariot and rose up
and when the Valorous Hanuman,
Prevented him from rising up further, he fought from sky
itself.
And Hanuman attacked
him by a long pillar made of black gold,
And that Rakshasa
using his bow prevented that pillar from reaching him.
5651, But that big bow
of that Rakshasa got broken and
he ,
Threw one of those
broken pieces of the Bow at Hanuman,
And then lifted a
mountain to throw at Hanuman,
Who understanding his
intention , using that ,
Iron pillar itself
killed the sweet soul of
that Rakshasa.
5652. The
other four commanders like
the fire with great flame,
Which comes out at deluge , with very great anger
,
And with smoke in
their eyes , Rained arrows at Hanuman
And at that time
blood started flowing from the wound of
shoulder of Hanuman,.
5653. Then that Valorous
Hanuman with his mind boiling
,understanding,
The strength of
those Rakshasas with deceit , threw at them ,
A huge stone which was
giving out sparks of fire but
those four,
Using their
arrows turned that stone in to dust.
5654. Again and
again the arrows which were shot
,
By those four commanders
hit the wide chest of Hanuman
and went away,
And then Hanuman who was an expert in war fare ,
Picked up one of
those chiefs with his chariot and threw on
to the sky.
5655. That chariot which was thrown by Hanuman
with ,
Great speed
crossed the sky with great speed
,
And later when it was
falling losing that speed ,
And before it fell down on the earth Hanuman jumped ,
On the Rakshasa
chief who jumped on to the earth.
5656. Hanuman,
the greatest hero among the valorous
heroes
Of great anger, jumped
on him ,like a lustrous male lion ,
On the very scared elephant , killed that
mountain like Asura,
By crushing his
body by stamping all over him.
5657. The remaining three with very great anger , hating Hanuman,
Drove their chariots
and started shooting arrows at
Hanuman,
And they also started to fight further by varying techniques ,
Asked Hanuman,” Now where
will you escape?” and continued fighting with him,
5658. That Anjaneya who had very fat
tall shoulders , making ,
Even the devas who
were living in the protected heaven scared,
Picked up two chariots
out of three that
were,
Opposing him
and rose up in the
sky.
5659.When he did that the horses of the chariots hung in the sky ,
The charioteer
was killed and those
two commanders ,
Having fat shoulders
, escaped and speedily travelled
in the sky,
And seeing that ,
before they could escape ,
That Hanuman of
huge size approached
near them.
5660. Hanuman using
his two hands broke their bow
with two ends ,
Destroyed completely their quiver and those Rakshasas,
Who did not have
any other weapon started ,
To do wrestling
with Hanuman from the sky itself.
5661. Those two
Rakshasas who had white teeth , black tall body,
And open cave
like mouth were looking similar to ,
The serpents Rahu and Kethu which were coming near .
And the very
valorous Hanuman looked like Sun God.
5662. Hanuman tied
the legs and tall shoulders of
those two Rakshasas,
Who were fighting
without getting tired , by his
tail,
Similar to being tied
by a thick rope and
broke them.
And they who were
removed like the serpents
Rahu and Kethu,
Fell down on earth
and died and that Hanuman
without any problem,
Stood like the
Sun God who was the enemy of lily flowers.
5663. The one
commander who was remaining stood opposing,
And Hanuman who saw him
jumped on his very big head ,
Like a lion jumping
on the hill and That Rakshasa ,
Died and along
with the chariot and was pressed in to the earth.
5664. Those
five commanders who liked cheating and robbing,
Who were wandering in sinful ways and not ways of Dharma ,
Who were more
cruel than poison , whose only job was
causing,
Trouble to others
, who were very angry and defeated
by Hanuman,
Were like the five
sense organs and Hanuman who killed them,
Was like the
great wisdom which controlled the five senses.
5665.None of Rakshasas
holding in their hands the ghee
coated spears,
Were alive and
returned back and those who did not fight but preferred,
To hide themselves
, seeing personally the killing
of the five commanders,
Whom even God of death would be scared creating huge
sound ran to Ravana.
5666. Ravana who was
seeing with aversion those women
,
Who were standing around him feeling that , the monkey,
Would kill all of
them with a confused and scared mind ,
And was shouting at them using very harsh words ,
Making the fire
at deluge burn was told about ,
The death of the
five commanders making his two ears get burnt.
5667.”The army was
completely destroyed , the five commanders
have died,
And only we
who had gone for the war have returned back and that too,
Because we
were not able to fight the war and that monkey speedily,
Killed those five commanders who had earlier achieved victory over heaven,
And is now
standing there without doing any thing
as there is no war.
10.Akka kumaran
Vadhai padalam
Chapter on
killing of Aksha Kumara.
( Aksha Kumara , the second son of Ravana and Mandodhari
goes to fight with Hanuman and in a very gruesome fight
he is killed along with his
army.)
5668. When that Ravana
who had reddish eyes like that of lac ,
Heard about the
death of the five commanders , he became very angry,
Left out long hot breath like fire which made
his garland of fresh petals,
Burn out
giving out unpleasant smell
stood ready to go for war ,
But his son Aksha
Kumara saluted at both his feet,
Prevented him from
going to the war and requested him, “Please give me a
chance.”
5669.”My
father , Since you
are not fighting with the steed of three eyed Shiva,
Or the steed of
Lord Vishnu who measured all the worlds in two steps Which is,
Garuda which
flies in a great manner or the
serpent on which he sleeps,
Or one of those
eight elephants of directions
, possibly ,
You are going to
fight with this silly monkey .
Please give this
duty to me and sweetly
remain here.”
5670.”When I who am your slave is prepared to obey your order
,
You ordered my
elder brother to go and bring the king of Devas ,
And made him do
that job .and due to that I have a slight complex in the mind.
But if you tell me
to catch that silly monkey and
bring it here,
My want would be slightly compensated,. So you , who have ,
Already won over
all the eight directions, please
send me for that job.”
5671, “That Lord Shiva
who has three eyes which he does
not blink ,
Possibly wanting to
cause a slight insult to this
Lanka , must have taken,
That form of that
silly monkey which eats slowly the harvested new leaves.
In spite of that
I would go easily and within no time catch and bring him here.”
5672. Whether it
is the Narasimha which came out of the pillar which can catch anything ,
Whether it is the huge
Lord Varaha which carried the earth
like a small piece of dust,
They are not
suitable to fight with me
and even if there is a need to go from
,
This globe to another, If I do not catch and bring it to
you, please punish me for that.
5673.After telling these
words , he said, “please give me leave to go” ,
Saluted him and
Ravana after seeing that Aksha kumara
,
Who had big shoulders and was wearing heroic anklets with joy,
Said, “Go in a chariot drawn by horses
which run with great speed”.
And that Lad who
was wearing a garland of pretty flowers ,
Got dressed
for war and
went.”
5674. He climbed
in a chariot left by Indra when he was defeated,
Which was
speedy drawn by two hundred horses and
all Asuras,
Blessed him . The
cloud like drums blared forth
and he was ,
Followed endlessly by
a very powerful army ,
Which was like
the ebbing ocean at the time
of deluge.
5675. If we can count
the sharks in the ocean with tides lashing about ,
Then we can count the number of elephants that accompanied that lad.
If we can count the
number of fish that wander
about in that ocean,
Then we would be
able to count the golden chariots that followed him,
If we could count
the sand on its bank which is kept classified ,
Then we would be able
to count the strong foot soldiers in that army ,
If we are able to count
the tides that come one
after other ,
In that ocean , we can count the jumping horses in that
army.
5676,Twelve thousand sons
of the kings of the victorious
Rakshasa clan ,
Who were like
sparks of fire of the shining
and burning fire ,
Which rose up to
destroy everything at the time of deluge , and,
Who were friends who did not have a soul separate from Aksha kumara,
Got in to their chariots
and surrounded that Aksha kumara.
5677. The sons of
the members of Ravana’s council , The sons,
Of his very
intelligent ministers , the sons of the commanders of his army,
The sons born to
Ravana with the divine ladies of
heaven,
Numbering about four lakhs riding on ,
Their machine
driven chariots also
accompanied him.
5678.-5679. Iron
rods , pestles, spears
, tridents ,lustrous axes , Vajrayudhas, goads,
Strong bows with
attached arrows , Vel
. arrows , throw spears
, swords ,
Huge trees ,
throw ropes , Vajrayudhas
made of diamonds which rise against
enemies ,
Pretty round rods , maces with thorns, Wheel which can kill without
fail,
And such weapons for attack coming close were resembling ,
Several lightning
joining together and
were giving rise,
Light like sun
light and moon light and seeing many drops ,
Joining together
in the sky the world of devas
,
Whose end cannot be predicted looked like the earth.
5680. Crows,
hawks , ghosts, god of death , the
sin that they ,
Have done for several years , followed that lad’s army ,
The mind of
the peacock like Asura ladies who had words sweeter than sugar syrup,
Who has red
mouth , spear like
eyes and shoulders like thick bamboos,
AS well as
several crowds of bees
also followed them and went round
them.
5681. Due to, the crying sound of doe eyed
asura ladies who were the wives,
Of these asuras ,
who were calling their consorts , the
sound of the ocean.
The sound
produced due the army marching in groups,
The sound produced
my many musical instruments ,
And sound of
thunder by the clouds
, what a person
spoke,
Was not understood
by another person who was
near by.
5682.The gems on the ornaments that were shining
like sun light ,
Were stifling the light of the sun which was pervading all over the world,
The luster which was coming
out of the cruel spears stifled the light
of those gems,
And in the light created
by the crescent like teeth of
the Asuras
Stifled the light
from those weapons and due to it
being like this,
To the newer and
newer beings that
were being produced ,
It neither
appeared to be either night
or day.
5683. At that
time the horses with forelocks , which were tied
,
To huge chariots
got tired and were sleeping
, the shoulders ,
And eyes on the
left side of those asuras
were throbbing , the clouds ,
Which were water bearing
gave rise to the rain of
blood ,
The famished crows became happy
and shouted with joy ,
And the sky which
was not dark was producing sound
like thunder.
5684. That
lad came surrounded by one
Vellam of cruel army making,
Devas scared and confused ., The God of death seeing that ,
Became very sad
worrying about the possible result?
And the ghosts
became possessed with
rotating eyes ,
Filled with
joy and patting their soldiers
produced harsh sound ,
And with all this
, the son of wind God observed,
The clearly visible arrival of
that lad with honey dripping garland.
5685. Seeing that
lad coming , The angry
Hanuman who was like a lion,
Among all monkeys
thought “Is this the Indrajit?
Or is that ,
Ravana whom I am
expecting who has come
the war?
Has my wish borne
fruit?” and then looked at his
,
Pretty shoulders
, greeted them , saluted Rama by
his mind and told to himself.
5686.”If the one
who is coming is Indrajit or Ravana
, then it must be,
The result of good
deeds done by me in previous births and my Lord .
Sugreeva
might have also get the effect of penance. I am standing ,
Ready to kill him
and God of death also is
standing near by,
And I would be
able to complete my job by to night .”
5687.”Though he is
like a big blue mountain and he had faultless form,
He is not Ravana
who has ten heads and he is not
Indrajit either ,
Who has won
over the thousand eyed Indra and if
thought properly,
He seems to be better
than both of them ,He is also not
God Subrahmanya ,
Who excels in fighting war , Who is
this faultless lad?’
5688. When
after doubting like this , becoming
happy, Hanuman ,
Who was a faultless
and sincere follower of Dharma,
Sat on the arched
entrance which was like a
multi coloured rainbow,
That Asura lad
who is engaged in cruel duties
saw him
and told,
“Did this small
monkey kill the crowd of all asuras
?”
And then he
laughed showing his lustrous teeth in an
insulting manner,
5689. The
charioteer who heard such
disparaging words from the lad,
Said , “Sir, please hear
what I have to say, Can we ever tell
with boldness ,
About how some event will happen in this world? Please do not find fault because it is a monkey,
Vali who came
and fought with our king was
also only a monkey .
Is there any
need to talk about
this subject any more?
Please keep this firmly in mind and proceed
to gain victory” and made him understand
it.
5690.As soon as he
heard these words
, that lad who appeared as personification
of poison,
Looked at the charioteer and told, “I would not leave my anger
till I kill this monkey,
Who has come to our own place and did these
cruel acts, Later I would go and
search,
For monkeys
throughout world for monkeys
, including those in the wombs
,
And destroy all of
them ,This is my oath.”
5691. That Rakshasa
army departed making tumultuous sound , surrounded ,
That mountain like
son of Anjana and shot weapons
at him like monsoon rain,
And seeing that
the guardians of eight
directions, sweated due to fear ,
The earth and
heaven trembled due to that war and the valorous Hanuman ,
Wearing a garland , with loneliness as his only aid , went and
fought with them.
5692.All the weapons sent by the Rakshasas
not able to enter inside,
Broke and fell down
, the elephants which
dashed against him died ,
The chariots as well as
the crowds of horses got destroyed ,
Making that city of Lanka
changing its nature , the limitless
number of Asuras died.
5693. There was no
end to the Rakshasas who were being
killed by ,
Hanuman the son of
wind god who was like a raging fire
,
Burning the dried
grass almost within no time and definitely ,
The souls of those
asuras who went to that far , has
to go to ,
The southern world of Yama , but does
he have,
One thousand crores
emissaries to take these
souls to his world.
5694.When those
Asura heroes who were already there
in the battle field ,
Those who were coming
and those who were planning to
come ,
Were engaged in
doing the cruel war , that
valorous Hanuman ,
With his fighting
ability increasing three folds
, went like fire towards the enemies,
And became
similar to Sun God at deluge
who burnt out everything ,
And all those
Asuras with strong
shoulders became like bone less insects.
5695.That Hanuman who had won over his five senses , making one feel,
That all the beings of Lanka , protected by the ocean with large number of sharks,
Were caught by God
of death in a great robbery, fought
with that army.
The elephants wearing regal masks , the pretty chariots
, as well as the horses,
Fell down upturned and were crushed and the blood that was coming
of them all,
Flowed like a
river , making the earth slushy and
thus Hanuman did not allow anyone to escape.
5696.When those Asuras
who came before Hanuman were destroyed,
Some of those who were alive and struggling told “Only chariots were destroyed.”
Some others told,
“Only foot soldiers with red faces and
strong shoulders were killed”,
Some others
said “Majority of those killed were
horses “and some others said,
“Only the cloud
like elephants with mask
were being killed speedily.”
5697.Those very strong Asuras who were
in the tumultuous ocean of
that army ,
Suffered like the
curd made from the milk boiled and curdled
by the cow herd ladies,
In a wide mouthed vessel , which was being churned but Hanuman ,
Who was like the
matchless churner . The Asura
lads with throw spears,
Were looking as if all the beings of the seven worlds has joined together ,
Like the water
that ebbs out at
the time of deluge and Hanuman ,
Who was as strong
as the wind God was like the fire at
deluge , drying up that water.
5698.Hanuman killed
all the Asuras who were coming to fight the war
with him ,
Some Asura heroes died
, some others with shivering bodies retreated ,
Huge rivers of
blood started flowing and all those who were
standing near,
Akshakumara ,
unable to
stand there went away and he who was alone ,
In his
chariot with matchless wheels
went in front of Hanuman ,
And with his eyes
looking like burning fire sent very powerful sharp arrows at Hanuman.
5699. That younger
brother of Indrajit thus arrived
in front of Hanuman and ,
Hanuman who was practiced with killing
several lakhs of valorous
souls in a single day,
Stood
opposite to him and seeing that
the Devas , with a mind filled
with mercy,
With worry thought, “What will now happen to
Hanuman?” and due to that ,
They had the great
state in which their eyes
never blinked.
5700.That lad sent
fourteen arrows which spit out fire
at Hanuman and he ,
Using a pretty iron rod
made them fall on earth and they become
useless,
And then he sent
many cruel arrows at Hanuman so that
iron rod is turned in to dust,
And the
valorous Hanuman due
to his not having any other weapon with him,
Used his
bare big hands as his weapon and climbed
Into that
chariot having rolling wheels of
that lad.
5701.Hanuman
stood on that chariot and killed the charioteer holding
the whip,
And when he pressed
firmly with his hand , that
matchless strong chariot ,
That chariot broke
in to pieces and all the horses died,
And then the lad
rained arrows from the strong bow and ,
Some of them struck
the chest of Hanuman and some
others,
Pierced his gold
like shoulders and that wise
Hanuman ,
Snatched his
strong curved bow and stood
before him.
5702.When Hanuman snatched his very strong bow
from that lad by one hand,
And even before
that very strong Aksha kumara
started pulling the bow with
both his hands ,
That bow broke
and that lad using his sword tried to pierce
the golden shoulder of Hanuman,
He who was the
emissary of Rama who brought
word to Sita snatched that sword,
By his hand which he uses for war snatched it
and making fire sparks fly,
Made it fall
as dust on that
way.
5703.That lad who started fighting with the sword , even before that sword was broken,
And reach the earth
,came forward to fight with his very strong shoulders ,
And when he was trying to catch hold of Hanuman who came there ,
The hairs of Hanuman which were like spear
went in to his body,
And Hanuman tied
him with his long pretty tail so that he could not get out,
Pushed him down
on to the earth and sat on him.
5704.That Hanuman who caught that lad by his tail slapped
him with his very broad palm,
Uprooting and shattering his
teeth which were sharp like the
sword ,
Punched him with
his strong fists , which were
like a victorious hill,
And like the sparks of lightning falling from the
cloud , made fall the gems,
Studded on his
ear globes and other ornaments fall
down and scatter ,
And also brought out his intestines which were hanging like a serpent in a cave.
5705. Using the blood flowing like river , as the water needed
for grinding,
With the battle ground
as the mortar , with the flesh
pieces which fell from his body ,
On the earth
looking like rice spread over everywhere , using a part of the asura’s body as mortar ,
Before the soul departed
from the lad , Hanuman with his two lustrous big hands,
With the people of heaven and earth watching it , grinded
that lad,
And made him in to a
paste so that his own fame ,
Would exist even
if all the seven worlds cease to exist.
5706.Some of those asuras who were alive hid below the blood flowing out of the
wounds ,
Some hid their body in the hill like corpses collected
by the ghosts by covering
themselves,
Some others
pushed by great fear died on the spot , some not knowing the directions,
Wandered here and
there , became greatly upset
and died ,
Some others lost
their strength to go anywhere m, some dropped their weapons ,
And remaining
started running helter-skelter without bothering about directions.
5707.Some
Asuras assumed the form of fish
and joined the ocean ,
Some others
assumed the form of cows and started grazing all around ,
Some assumed the form
of flesh eating birds like hawks, crow
etc ,
Some others took
the forms of Brahmins
who had learned the Vedas,
Some others assumed
the form of doe eyed young ladies, Who had left
their hair in the front,
Some said, “Sir
we surrender to you” and repeated name of Lord Vishnu.
5708. Some asuras
when their relations or wife saw them
with joy and wanted to hug them,
Would say to them ”We are
not your relations .We are Devas and
we have come here.
To witness the
war “ and then went elsewhere. Some
others shouted ,
“We are men and not
Asuras” and some others took the
form of a bee ,
And wandered in the garden of Mandhara trees, some
others not knowing anything fainted,
Some other Asuras
broke their crescent like teeth
and made their red hair in to black.”
5709. The Asura
ladies of Lanka
with faces wearing ear
globes on their ears ,
Who had breasts on
which Kumkum paste has been applied ,
With raised
untied hairs which
made the bees wander falling on their feet,
Wailed opening and closing their scented
mouths which were red like the lotus flower .
And their wailing sound
was even heard up to the
heavens.
5710. The young
ladies who were wearing pretty garlands over their
red hairs,
Completely worn out
by crying and
stood up and saluted by falling at their feet,
Their dead husbands
who had faces which were red like rising sun,
It was not possible
to distinguish them from the blood that flowing in the city.
5711. When the very pretty Asura ladies resembling
very pretty dolls,
Were falling on the bodies of the valorous Asuras in that faultless , cruel battle field,
They were
breathing heavily and had
closed their bow like
eyes and this was,
Perhaps because
they and their husbands had one
soul with two bodies.
5712. Those very
innocent Asura ladies ran searching for their husbands ,
Like the bodies
running in search of their soul and they who were running,
Due to the greatness
of their chastity , left
their soul and died.
They searched for the body of their husbands in the heaps of corpses,
And joined with
their faultless husbands and
because of that ,
Those deva ladies who
had hugged their husbands , did not like them.
5713.One Asura lady who resembled Goddess Lakshmi , who had
eyes like ,
Sharpened sword
, took a body without head which seems
to have stopped dancing ,
Hugged it tightly
and said “Please point out to me
my matchless ,
Friend of my soul,
“ and saluted it
wailing all the time.
5714. The daughter
of one Asura who was as pretty as
the flower branch,
Whose picture can
never be drawn , holding the head of her dead husband,
Seeing that his
body which stands and dances has been
damaged, said,
“Oh king , You
have become thin by too much of dancing ,
So please stop this dance
“ and then with hands
, were as soft ,
As a new leaf and flower
hugged him tightly.
5715.Mandodhari
who was the daughter of Maya with her
kayal fish like,
Eyes shedding copious tears, with her cloud
like hair rolling in dust,
Fell at the feet of
Ravana who was the son of
the son of Lord Brahma,
Beat her
belly , cried and wailed
loudly.
5716. All the
ladies of the pretty city of
Lanka also fell at the feet,
Of Ravana and cried with great mercy and the devas who were,
Forced to protect
the town also fell at his feet ,
And pretended as
if sad , though they were happy.
11.Pasa Padalam
Chapter on the
rope.
(Indrajit , the elder brother of Aksha comes and after a great battle ties Hanuman with
Brahmastra drags him through the city.
In Kamba Ramayana
it says that Hanuman submitted to
Brahmastra due to respect and since he
wanted to see Ravana went along with Indrajit.
In Valmiki Ramayana it is said that
the Asuras tie Hanuman with a
rope and because of that Hanuman is
immediately freed from the tie.)
5717. When that
very masculine Megha natha who
got great fame by getting ,
Great victory
over Indra and destroyed his strength , heard about this, his
cruel eyes ,
Started shedding
sparks of fire and
he got enraged ,
Sufficiently to
make all worlds sorry and later destroy them.
5718. That matchless
Indrajit due to the news that
his younger brother,
Who had the lustrous sharpened spear has been killed ,
Felt as if his mind
was burning , and breathing as if
his soul was afire,
Started for the war
similar to Lord Shiva who burnt the three cities,
By bending The Meru
mountain as a bow and had divine
luster.
5719.He , who by his
valour touched the boundary
of the sky,
Got in to a big
wheeled chariot drawn by one thousand
two hundred ghosts.
And the words of valour that he uttered
, coming continuously from him,
Made cracks
in all the great directions and broke
the universe.
5720. The heroic anklets
and garlands that he wore as well
as,
The sound of drums accompanying him made
even the thunder scared,
And hearing that sound the king of Devas shivered for his
life ,
And his body was
covered with sweat and he
suffered due to great fear and
The trinity who
were the God of gods deciding that war has neared its peak,
And stopped the
works that were being done by them.
5721.That Indrajit whose
eyes got filled up as and when he thought ,
Of the death of his younger brother, with tears
running like a stream,
Looked at his very strong
bow , folded his lips and laughed
with great anger.
He thought “Did a monkey which roams on tree branches ,
And does not have
a stable life , kill my
brother who has valour ,
That will not bent? Due to that the fame of my father has gone down,”
5722. We do not have
capacity to count the number of spear soldiers,
Who can split the
mountain in to two nor those archers
who came in dense formation,
Nor those soldiers
who were armed with swords
. The number of small eyed elephants,
With rut water flowing on both sides which made
the earth slushy was twelve
thousand.
The number of
chariots in that army formation was also the same number.
5723, Similarly the cavalry of the same size assembled there and ,
When they joined, the Asura kings who held the swords of valour
,
Also came and joined them and Indrajit who
had enmity ,
Flowing like a stream
, immediately came and got in to his chariot ,
And went inside the palace of Ravana
having a pretty entrance .
5724.He fell on the feet of Ravana and wailed
for the death ,
Of his younger brother , and the very fearless Ravana ,
Of his younger brother , and the very fearless Ravana ,
Held both
shoulders of Indrajit and
hugged him ,
And cried and became weak and the ladies of Asura clan,
Who had long eyes
like two swords , beat themselves on their belly,
Wailed and
swooned and Indrajit who was as strong
as a lion ,
Separated
them and looked at
his father and talked.
5725. “You are not deeply
thinking about anything that does
good to us,
You experience whatever happens and then
become sad because of it.
Though you knew about the great strength of that
cruel monkey,
You went on sending rows and rows of Rakshasas
asking them,
To fight with that
monkey and I think you have
killed them all.”
5726.”Oh my father
, KImkaras, Jambumali , the faultless five commanders ,
Who were all asuras wearing heroic anklets along
with a part of our army ,
Were all killed
and not even one was able
to return , Is it really a monkey?
For I feel
that is the same as the
trinity of Lord Brahma, Vishnu and
Shiva .”
5727. “You have
won over the prowess of the eight elephants of direction,
You have won over the Kailasa mountain of Lord Shiva who
burnt the three cities,
You have won
over the three worlds and you are now
simply seeing that monkey,
Which had killed Aksha
kumara. Even after all this
destruction ,
If we say that we
will go to the battle field and win over
it ,
That would be idle prattling. Would it be a wise
decision?”
5728.”Inspite of that
sir, I would easily catch that
monkey who does acts of
valour ,
In a very short time
and so from now on you need not suffer
any sorrow for that ,
You would live
long,” saying like this that
Indrajit who imprisoned ,
Lord Indra , the
king of devas along with his
fame , went to the battle field.
5729.He went along with
chariots which went in a
row , surrounded,
By Umbrellas made
of corals , with palanquins
made of pearls ,
Surrounded by
cloud like black chariots made of black wood,
With cruel elephants in rut looking like
black rainy clouds ,
And with white
cowries which went like jumping horses.
5730. With conches booming , with big drums giving sound
like thunder,
With trees shaking
due to cruel sound generated by
Thilai and Kaduvai,
The crowd of garlands
and the dust making sky invisible .
The umbrellas
shiningly visible here and there
like moon,
And making the elephants
of directions shiver with
fear , he came.
5731.When the valorous heroes , who
fixing several types of pipes like fire ,
And were blowing
them , did not find way to proceed further
,
Seeing this
Hanuman who was the
emissary of Rama ,
The lord of Dharma ,went
to do penance leading life of sages
Saw this by his
mind as well as eye and smiled thinking
About the war
which was coming towards him.
5732.Indrajit came
with the crowd of red
umbrellas and garlands ,
By the side
of his chariot made of Gold , with ladies
,
Who had fist like
waist , similar to the branch of
Karpaga trees of heaven and,
Who had reddish mouth
and who had hair decorated by scented
flowers
Fanning with
shaking cowries , and with instruments
like horn ,
Making great sound
stealing the intestines of those hear them,
5733.They say
that the number of the collection of garlands was hundred thousand,
The sun shades made of
peacock feathers and the faultless conches
was ten thousand,
And he came
surrounded by Umbrellas of the
colour of red , white
, blue and green
Several lustrous
multi coloured flags and
crores of Indras and Sun Gods.
5734.With those
Rakshasas who liked wars blowing very many horns made of gold
,
Purified in the
fire all together at the
same time , keeping them on their mouth .
And hearing that huge sound the people earth and heaven were startled
and became tired ,
And talking among themselves that the Rakshasas have
become enthusiastic and
The time of final
destruction has come near , came
with desire to see the war.
5735.The division
armed with well sharpened arrows
, the division with,
Fire spitting
spears and the number of archers
who can shoot the arrows well,
And the ocean of
Asuras armed with similar weapons
,and having musical instruments ,
Like horn ,
conch and others joining together
, the earth unable to bear the burden,
Bent her back a
little and Indrajit who was
responsible ,
For giving this
pain to the world came to the war
said the golden symbols.
5736. The long shields
made of tiger’s hide like the ocean of horses which were fighting
,
Went up to the
Devas making even the god of
death scared .
And they got
ready their big bows and the rain of arrows,
Which emanated
from there. Similar to the ocean
on full moon days,
Neared the arch
built in world of Devas as if they
touched them,
5737.Due to the playing of drums like Thadavai
maram, Chagadai parat,
And thimilai parai
all the stars fell down similar to flowers falling from the tree,
And the great
sound made by those heroes who were
like the killer tigers,
Along with the
sound of long bells tied on the neck of
the elephant filled up the world.
5738. They readied the arrows
which has known wounds earlier,
In their eighty thousand crores of bows and started
sending them,
And not only that
that arch which was touching
the sky vanished,
And Hanuman who was praised by the worlds became one who lived
in that great war.
5739. The
army that was coming to fight with
very valorous Hanuman
Consisted of
twenty Vellam of sword bearing
army ,
the army ,
That fought
with the Vel numbered to twelve crores,
And those who
fought with spear were
one vellam .
5740.Horses
jumping and flying like a ball , Chariots in dense formation,
Going faster than
the mind , and elephants with black
colour like night
,
Were coming in
such a way that dust raided by
them hid the world of the moon.
5741, The sound of instruments like conch , flat drums
, chachari and chinnam,
Were heard everywhere
, The big drums raised a noise
like thunder ,
The cruel sound of
Stones filled up the sky
and,
The Asuras
came with great speed , seething with anger.
5742. All
places of horses which were visible were
crowding,
In all directions
collections of chariots were crowding ,
In all places there were
only black cloud like elephants,
And in all places those who were shouting were the asuras.
5743.The horses
which were attached to the
chariot were two hundred crores,
The asuras
without guard who were included were as if another eon has arrived,
And besides those
asuras who were helping other soldiers were ten Vellams.
5744.Those asuras who were surrounding that Cheating Indrajit
were ,
One hundred vellums of bow holding archers, the number of
soldiers,
Who hold the bow and capable of jumping and rushing
was beyond counting,
And similar was the case of elephants with a hole in their trunk.
5745.That monkey chief
whose valour could make
enemies faint ,
Seeing such a
large army of
that Indrajit,
Turned to the north and saluted Lord
Rama and stood there,
With very good
happiness visible in his face.
5746.Seeing that
ocean of Asuras who seem to say,
There is no
place in all the seven worlds for them to occupy,
And who stood in a
dense formation and were coming towards him,
Hanuman called
them as if a cock is calling
them.
5747.When Hanuman with great joy was
calling them ,
Understanding what
that intelligent monkey meant
Te Asuras who
had a body of black colour ,
Sent arrows at
him, many of which fell in the ocean.
5748.Since the form of
the lion like Indrajit was completely covered by the dust
Not able to see him , Hanuman , examined everywhere found him out ,
And addressing him
started telling the following
words.
5749. That Hanuman
who was an expert in the endless
knowledge ,
Which he had heard
, looking at the huge crowd
of elephants surrounding Indrajit,
To protect him ,
also saw the white royal umbrella that
usually preceded Indra,
Became happy
knowing that Indrajit was there
only and stood smiling.
5750.Hanuman becoming joyous at seeing
Indrajit departing ,
With great anger called , “Oh Indrajit who is cruel and strong ,
Please do come to the war with great speed.”,
And one of them told him that, “This is Indrajit.”
5751.Hearing
that , Hanuman with shoulders
like the mountain,
Said, “Good, that
is Good” and wanted to fight the war
,
And at this
time the army of Indrajit reached
that arch.
5752. The entire
army of Asuras who were capable of sinking the earth,
Making one feel that
there is no more space in all the seven worlds,
Started like the
raising ocean at the time of
deluge and Hanuman called them for war.
5753. When the
army approached from all
directions making ,
The sun, moon and stars , fall down like flowers and seeing them,
Hanuman thought ,”If the biggest strength
of them is this Asura army,
Which is marching towards me , they can not only win Indra but
all the seven worlds.”
5754. That army of
black coloured Asuras , similar
to , the great darkness ,
Which was defeated
by Sun God doing great
penance and assuming ,
Many black forms
who won the
rays of Sun God from him
And wore them as ornaments, as a sign of their victory ,
Along with shining ornaments that they were wearing ,
And holding swords which had gone deep in to the bodies of enemies,
And thereby getting a stain of flesh , which were also shining
,
And were capable
of giving victory in war ,
possibly feeling
That the earth is
not sufficient for them joined the army of Indrajit.
5755. The
pretty chariots with wheels
, horses, foot soldiers ,
Angry elephants
with red eyes and wearing ornamental masks,
And the entire Asura army that have assembled there ,
like ,
The rising sea at
the time of deluge accompanied Indrajit
,
And he whose
valour cannot be divided among others,
Shined separately
standing in the middle of the
huge army ,
And was
similar to the matchless , very big Meru mountain.
5756. Indrajit
who went to the war like
this , though he had fame
Of winning over the eight directions and the three worlds ,
Because he was a
great hero firmly established in his valour,
Seeing that
Hanuman who was looking like an ocean ,
And who had done great valorous act , appreciated him,
Saying, “His valour is indeed great” and became happy.
All those who saw it felt scared , thinking about what would happen.
5757. That Indrajit wearing ornaments of the shape of leaf , saw that great battle field,
And thought that
it was like a different world , with very many cruel weapons,
Floating in the
rivers of blood from the big corpses
of those Asura who died there,
And along with immeasurable number of mountains , oceans,
Rivers and
forests was looking like another
world which is wide .
5758. He felt slight
sorrow in his mind which had never suffered from sorrow ,
And thought
that “All the Asura warriors , who were
like a completely full ocean,
Who had measureless
greatness and who were matchless
in their valour ,
Had died here..
There is only one monkey
that is seen to be here,
And if Rama comes
and wages a war at us along with
similar monkeys,
With which army
can we fight with him and win
over him?”
5759.Those who were as dear as his eyes , those
who were like his soul,
Who with the weapons selected by
them were capable of protecting their people,
Who had
greatness which is beyond
imagination , have all died due to Hanuman,
And seeing several Asura warriors who were lying there on the battle field
,
Indrajit got
angry, folded his lips and felt
that his mind was boiling ,
Like introducing a stick in to the never
healing wound.
5760.Indra jit said
, “If the insult that was
meted to my aunt in the forest ,
Killing of Khara
and the sorrow due to
killing of my younger brother
Aksha kumara ,
And other insults
have been caused by just two men and a monkey ,
The valour within me
is not pretty , What a great
surprise?”
5761.With a greatly suffering soul, with the
colour of fire , when Indrajit was going
,
Through the
path full of mountains of corpses
which were impeding his progress,
And which cannot
be pulled out saw
the dead body of his younger brother,
Who was rubbed out
by Hanuman , with his angry
red eyes,
Which was shining
like copper greatly heated in
fire, with a very angry mind.
5762. Seeing the
body of his brother whose form
has been altered ,
Lying in the
blood flow similar to Dharukasura and similar
, to the body Of Hiranya,
Which was made in to a paste by the matchless
Lord Narasimha by his sharp nails ,
His chariot shook and became unstable , he let fall the valorous bow that he was holding ,
And blood and
tears from his red eyes showing enmity which was also spitting fire ,
And That Indrajit
stood there letting out hot
tortured breath,
5763,”Oh my dear , Even the god of death getting scared of
the great anger ,
Of your
father who holds a cruel and sharp spear
, cannot take away your soul,
Also all
those who live in different worlds would be scared to hide you,
How is it that you
easily left us and which world have you
gone to?” Wailed Indrajit.
5764. That Indrajit unable bear the sorrow
due to the death of his sibling,
Became jaded , weak
and sad due to the love he had
towards his younger brother,
But what was
most prominent was his anger which had
the property of ebbing out,
And like hitting a
nail over another nail already pushed in , pushes that nail further,
His anger pushed inside the great sorrow that he had
in his mind, what a surprise?”
5765. When these
things were happening there ,
the very masculine Hanuman ,
Wearing a heroic anklet who was like Lord Shiva who burnt
the three cities ,
With great anger saw Indrajit the son
Of Ravana , who was coming
towards him,
Who was riding
on chariot similar to Lord Sun riding
on a chariot.
5766.”is it not true that I have won over some
Asuras earlier? This person,
Has been summoned here speedily by
either by my defeat or victory,
And one of them will definitely happen here. This one is
surely Indrajit.” Hanuman thought.
5767. ”If this Indrajit
wearing a well scented flower garland
who is like a bull,
Mad with valour
is killed by me , that would cause
the death of Ravana also,”
Thinking like this
further, Ravana
thinking that he would surely die
,
Would take the
faultless and chaste Sita
and give her to Rama ,
And not only that
all these Asuras would lose their pride and lose their cruelty.”
5768.”If I can possibly kill this lustrous Indrajit
, there would be more than,
One benefit out of that
“Indra would not be sad any
more ,
There would not
be any security to this Lanka of Asuras ,
And I would also win over
Ravana and uproot him.”
5769. When Hanuman was thinking like that and standing there,
The army of Asuras
, elephants, chariots and
horses ,
Came before Indrajit
who had won the three worlds ,
three times ,
And entered Lanka
as a victorious Hero , and
created a huge sound,
That very big
Hanuman becoming angry ,
Uprooted a huge
tree and assumed a huge form.
5770. Some of
those elephants in that Asura army were kicked by Hanuman,
Some elephants
rolled , some of them were stamped by
the feet of Hanuman,
Some
elephants fell down , Some elephants fell on each other and got buried,
Some
elephants became upside down ,
some were killed in the war ,
And some elephants fell down with their feet upwards.
5771. Some
chariot collections were completely destroyed ,
In case of some ,
many parts were broken , some
lost their strength ,
And got
destroyed , some chariots
fell down with their joints broken,
Some of them got their axles broken and fell down , some became dust ,
Some were
crushed and fell down and some
fell down on earth.
5772.The heads of
the horses got crushed , some lost their eye balls ,
Some got their strong
legs broken , some fell down with a broken back,
Some wearing
garland of bells got their chest
crushed ,
Some vomited blood
, some had their hoofs wearing
shiny,
Golden anklets
broken and in some their bent necks got broken.
5773.The Asura
soldiers became those who were
caught by Hanuman,
Who had their bodies broken, who had
their big shoulders scattered,
Who had their heads broken , who had been bitten all over their body,
Who lost their
necks , who were slapped and who were
greatly scared.
5774. The arrows
from the well bent cruel bows and
many ,
Of the very cruel weapons were sent by the Asuras ,
And had fallen on
that very Valorous Hanuman ,
Like the steel
rod well heated in fire not burning the
stone of black smith ,
All those which
hit Hanuman did not cause any harm and
went away with sparks.
5775.The burning
arrows that were sent by Indrajit on Hanuman ,
Who had rising
great anger , and those arrows
produced flame and smoke ,
But did not
cause any harm to the body of
Hanuman and went away,
Seeing which Indrajit laughed with anger and devas
who saw it ,
Were worried as to
what will happen and their eyes
became sad.
5776.When the
chariots , horses and Asuras got scattered
,
And fell on the
ground ,
the valorous Indrajit with fat shoulders,
Who was standing
all alone among the dead Asuras ,
With increasing smile and anger went to war ,
With Hanuman who
was calling everybody, “Please come,
Please come.”
5777. The Asura Indrajit
twanged the string of his
bow with his fingers ,
Which increased
the shivering of the head of Indra, with the collection of ,
Huge thunders in
the widely dispersed clouds of the
sky shivering ,
Due to fear and making
the thousand headed Adhi sesha,
Who is a long serpent who always carries the world
, shiver.
5778.Hanuman who was
the emissary of the God who rules over all beings,
Reacting to that sound
slapped his big shoulders and shouted a war cry,
Which could be
told as splitting the universe , which powdered the mountains,.
Which split the long earth , which split the directions and,
Which broke the string tied to the bow of Indrajit.
5779.
Indrajit berating him and exhibiting his own valour told Hanuman,
“You are very
able , there is none in the world equal to you,
In the great strength
you are different from others and
stronger than them,
But today will soon become
the last and final day of your life.”
5780.Hanuman in return said, “Oh cruel Asura, I have come
here with a trick,
To put an end to your lives , to put an
end to your policy,
Of troubling people
, to put an end to the sinful
act of yours,
To put an end
to your weapons like sword and because
of that,
The power of my shoulders would never get reduced.”
5781.Hearing that
Indrajit thinking that ‘I will put an end to your wish”
Sent very big and
sharp arrows which were more powerful
than Vajrayudha and they ,
Hit Hanuman on his chest and head ,made new
blood flow from them, making
Devas scared.
5782. That Hanuman
became greatly enraged , further
increased his body ,
Not thinking that
the height of sky was not sufficient and assumed a super form,
Which was like the
fame of Rama who
obeying the words of his
step mother ,
And gave away all
the world which was surrounded by the ocean,
With folding high waves
to his younger brother and stood firmly in Dharma.
5783That Indrajit
with very powerful shoulders
who imprisoned , tied and Dragged Indra
,
The lord of
limitless worlds including the ten directions looked at Hanuman ,
But was able to see
a small part of his form and unable
to see his full form,
Became
perplexed , confused , startled
and surprised.
5784. That Hanuman who had assumed that huge super form ., extended ,
His huge hands in his front side , prevented the arrows
sent by Indrajit ,
From striking him
caught them and threw it back on
Indrajit ,
And slapped the ghosts pulling his chariot as well as his charioteer and
killed them,
5785.At this stage
, with the charioteer brought
another chariot ,
Which travels with
the speed of great wind at deluge , that Indrajit,
Jumped and got in to that chariot , using
arrows which were equal,
To several divine wheels
covered with arrows the entire body
of Hanuman ,
Who had a long
life span and had great strength in warfare.
5786.That
victorious Hanuman shook
his body and made fall on the
ground ,
All the arrows sent by Indrajit which had
hit his chest , jumped on his
chariot,
Caught the huge
bow he had used in winning
all the world several times,
Snatched it from
him , brought it out and broke
it .
5787.Even before
the sound of the breaking of
the bow ceased ,Indrajit ,
For continuing the war
used a sword called
Vajrayudha which was ,
Used by the
angry Devendra to cut the wings of big mountains,
And which was given to him as tribute and took it in his hand.
5788.That
Indrajit , the son of Ravana who
had matchless great
anger,
Send at a single strike,
hundred hundreds of arrows
which were the best in the war
Speedily by
bending his great bow , and that
great hero Hanuman,
Who was emissary
of Rama , getting several wounds in his body
got little tired.
5789. Those devas
who were shouting with joy earlier
, seeing Hanuman getting tired,
Became sad and
lost their wisdom and Hanuman who saw
this speedily becoming all right
,
Took a huge
tree in his pretty hands and broke
in to pieces , all the
arrows being ,
Rained at him by
Indrajit , rotated that
tree and beat strongly
Indrajit ,
Who was wearing a
great crown that was made
by gold and gems.
5790.That Indrajit who had earlier achieved victory
over Devas ,
AS soon as that
huge tree hit has head wearing the crown,
Bled copiously
from his head which washed his crown
,
And made the
shining rays from it properly visible ,
And he became greatly tired and his body shivered.
5791. That Indrajit who was standing there with
tiresomeness ,
As soon as he started
properly thinking , bit his
teeth ,
Which were like the crescent of the moon,
Send one
thousand arrows which were
similar on Hanuman,
Making the Devas
and Sages worried and making
Hanuman shivering.
5792. Those cruel
arrows sent by Indrajit thus went
and pressed ,
The chest
and hands of Hanuman , who with
anger as well as hatred ,
Went with greater speed
than the arrows sent by Rama ,
who is an expert,
Using his great bow and
picked up Indrajit along with his chariot ,
And threw
it and made greatly
tumultuous sound.
5793. That Indrajit
who is a very strong enemy beyond thought ,
Due to being thrown out by Hanuman fell at the edge of
chariot path of the sky,
And came out with
blood flowing on him with the scent
of the flesh,
Coming and collecting
below the lower eyelid and
fell on the floor .
5794. Even before that Indrajit who had
teeth which resemble
lightning ,
Fell on the floor
, he rose up from there
and reached the sky ,
And in the meanwhile
Hanuman with a long form ,
Within a time it
takes for a black gram to roll kicked ,
And destroyed all
the gem studded crowd of
chariots ,
Of the army of
Indrajit and destroyed all of them.
5795. Thart Indrajit who did not have another chariot
to ride ,
And also did not
have the power to stand before Hanuman,
Changing himself due
to his fire like great anger
,
Travelled on the sky
and since he did not have any
other option,
Took the courage
to the evil deed of sending the matchless ,
Weapon of Lord Brahma
called Brahmastra.
5796. After using
faultless forms of worships using
flowers ,
And offering flower coloured offerings
, lamps and incense ,
He performed
flower offering to Brahmastra ,
took that Brahmastra ,
Of Lord Brahma
who created all gods and
all the worlds ,
And was
living in the place
of Lord Vishnu and took it in his hand.
5797. After taking
like that Brahmastra in his hand
, he kept it,
On the string
of big and cruel bow ,
aimed at the shoulder of Hanuman,
And sent it
making the earth tremble , with directions shiver with fear
,
With moon in the
sky getting scared and also making Meru mountain shiver.
5798. That
great arrow which cannot be controlled by any one ,
Taking the form of king of cruel serpents who spit
out fire ,
And making even Garuda
who wanted to cut him
scared ,
Securely tied the
very huge shoulders of Hanuman.
5799.When the
weapon of Lord Brahma tied the
very strong body of Hanuman
,
That great
Hanuman , similar to the cool moon along with the serpent
falling at time of deluge,
From the sky along
with the tears of God of
Dharma who was following him and
the arch fell down.
5800. That Hanuman who had fallen down understanding that Brahmastra had hit him,,
Feeling it is not proper
to insult it and move away , closed his eyes ,
And acted as
if he was under its control and Indrajit
thinking ,
That his
strength is finished and came
near Hanuman.
5801. When Indrajit came
near Hanuman like this , those
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Who were earlier scared to fight with him and saved their life by running away,
To all the four directions , who were waiting to see
him getting exhausted ,
And who had shining teeth surrounded Hanuman from all the four sides ,
Pulled that Brahmastra which had attached to his
body like a serpent in a hole ,
Shouted with a
very loud voice and
chided Lord Hanuman.
5802.That big city of Lanka thinking
that the strength of the monkey
has been destroyed.
Which was shouting
in a loud voice was similar to the ocean with
beating tides,
From all sides that Brahmastra was looking like the serpent Vasuki ,
The Asuras were
looking like Devas and Hanuman
looked like Mandara mountain.
5803.That very angry
serpent like arrow , tied
the golden body of Hanuman tightly ,
And that Hanuman who was the only protector of God of Dharma in that city,
Was looking
like the Meru mountain , which
was tied by Adhi
Sesha
,At a time when
the huge wind was blowing , when he was
shining.
5804. Males and
females of the city came
and shouted with loud voice,
And went on
shouting in the surroundings, sky and in
all the four directions,
And there was
limit to the their joy at that time , which was
like the time,
When the city
celebrated Indrajit tying Indra
and bringing him there.
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