Yudha Kandam (contd)
36.Ravananan Vadhai Padalam
Chapter on killing
of Ravana
(this chapter deals with the great war between Rama and Ravana
and the killing of Ravana by Brahmastra. When Rama finds entry wounds on
the back of Ravana , he laughs at him but Vibheeshana explains the reason for
them. Rama requests Vibheeshana to do after
death rites. He wails and is consoled by Jambavan. Mandodhari comes there wails and dies due to great sorrow.
Vibheeshana does funeral rites to both of them,
The scene of
Agasthya teaching Adhithya Hrudaya to Rama to
get ability to kill Ravana is not there in Kamba ‘s version.)
9704.As soon as
Rama got up in to the big and pretty chariot
with wheels
The shining wheels of the chariot sunk in to that
dust and the Devas ,
Who were witnessing this
, wondered about the body weight of Ravana ,
And thought about
the Garuda who was more cruel than
the storm at deluge ,
But did not praise
him and praised
the shoulders of Hanuman with
great ability ,
And rained
flowers on them.
9705.Devas joyfully shouted ,”Let this chariot raise and
also carry all our strength ,
Let because of its entry
destroy and make fall the battle
mad Rakshasa,
Let the emperor among kings achieve victory, Let
large number of Rakshasis cry,”
And the strong chariot of Rama rose up as if it had come out from sea and went to battle field.
9706.Ravana who saw that chariot with his eyes understood
that the stable chariot ,
Was given by Devas
and folded his lips and gnashed
his teeth and thinking,
“What does it
matter?” ordered his charioteer to take his very strong chariot ,
Before Rama who
was holding a lustrous and very strong bow.
9707.All those monkeys who had scattered away earlier
seeing that thought,
“Devas had given the
chariot and there is no
doubt that killer
of enemies, Rama would win now ,”
And leaving out their fear again started roaming in the battle field ,
They threw trees and mountains and the sound raised by them,
Broke apart the
directions and universes.
9708.The sound from the
drums bound by tapes , the sound
raised by the warriors,
Who were
fighting in the war , the joyful sound raised by the other soldiers ,
Joined together
and due to that soldiers on both sides
fell down on floor and became
calm,
And the sounds of
the moving chariots of both of them rose
from above and made everyone deaf.
9709.The son of the king of kings Rama , looked at the face of Matali and said,
“”Please hear
what I say with love , you please do you
job after seeing my signs,
After our
enemy with joyful thoughts completes all the jobs he wants to do , and
do not rush in now “
9710.”Oh generous one
, unless I do my act after understanding your thoughts ,
The mentality of the horses, the intentions of the enemy
, the strength of the enemies,
The ills that can
happen due to that, the firmness in our plans , the atmosphere ,
Where acts can be done without deceit and the strength of the
acts ,
Would not make my
art become inferior “
and that pure one
understood it and said , “good.”
9711.Mahodhara who had a
form of a mountain touching the sky
went to Ravana ,
And told, “Oh lord
Rama is now visible riding on a chariot drawn by horses and the time ,
For a cruel war to take place between you too has neared ,.My standing
like a witness ,
In between you both is wrong and so give me leave now “
9712.Then Ravana replied , “Like a male
lion destroying an elephant , I would destroy,
That Rama who has
lotus like eyes and if you fight
with his brother Lakshmana,
Who is with him and prevent him from coming here , you would bring victory to me.”
And that Mahodhara who was boiling with anger said, “I would do like that” and went back.
9713.Before that one who had returned approached the
younger Lakshmana ,
He was neared by
the strong divine chariot of the
masculine Rama and ,
Mahodhara with great ebbing anger ordered “drive the chariot so that it hits “,
And that charioteer
saluted him and started telling.
9714.”Oh sir , after seeing the form of this great
Rama even innumerable crores of Ravanas ,
With evil eyes cannot
come near him , they would all lie as corpses in the battle field and not walk,
And so it is better for you leave that lotus eyed Rama and go away from here “ he
told.
9715. AS soon as he told that Mahodhara folded his open mouth showing teeth and said
“If I pick you up who has spoken against me and eat
you , bad name will come to me
That Rama’s
big chariot went before
the chariot of that angry mountain like Mahodhara ,
Which had flags
tied to it and huge war with great
sounds began.
9716. The huge golden chariot of Mahodhara , his horses
, elephants ,his foot soldiers,
With their
hands holding sword with the scent of
flesh , their stone like broad
shoulders ,
The ocean like army
and other things were all became
dried up ,
Being drunk
by the angry fire like arrows
of Rama. And Mahodhara with
strong legs ,
Went alone before Rama
with his chariot ,
9717. Mahodhara sent speedy rain like arrows aimed at the flag of Rama with thunder symbol,
At the chariot
with great sound , At the
charioteer who was controlling the
horses ,
At the mountain like
shoulders of Rama and made a
huge war cry ,
That could tear away the sky and the directions and the pure Rama smiled.
9718.Rama sent one arrow
aimed at his bow, another aimed at his armour ,
Another aimed at
his strong hands another aimed at his stone like shoulders,
Another aimed at his neck
and used arrows with great speed
and that Mahodhara,
Contrary to the words given by him to Ravana acted
in a different way and fell down in to pieces.
9719. The cruel Ravana
who had won over all the
three worlds and ,
All the directions
saw the way that Mahodhara died
and since,
This affected him
he looked at his charioteer and
said , “drive the chariot “
And that huge
chariot drawn by horses driven by the charioteer went speedily to the
front.
9720. Valorous Rama understanding that as long as the huge army of Ravana which was
spread,
Like mist is scattered is
killed and he becomes alone , he would
not surrender ,
And without Ravana
noticing it using his curved bow
completely destroyed army of Ravana.
9721.At that time
the very powerful Ravana saw the
worlds sinking down,
The water of the
oceans getting dried , the storm which
wins over everything blowing ,
Raising up
troubled him and The
huge mountains like Meru starting
to move ,
And his anklets
with gems breaking down and his left golden shoulder twitched.
9722.A rain of blood
was seen to fall all over the
world ,
The clouds gave
rise to thunders making the world shiver
,
The thunder strokes fell and broke
huge mountains ,
And surrounded the luster less sun and other planets.
9723. The horses tied to Ravana ‘s chariots slept ,
When the cruel bows are bent and arrows
were kept ,
ON the string they broke
, the mouth and toungue of Ravana
dried up,
And the
garland made with new flowers gave
out the scent of flesh.
9724.Hawks and crows settled on the flag of Ravana ,
Which had the picture of Veena and flew along with it,
The horses with
nature to jump were letting out tears ,
And the elephants decorated with forehead plate ,
Were standing immobile
as if they were tied in the
stable.
9725. Those bad
omens occurring to Ravana increased ,
The joy of Devas
and started occurring like
these ,
But Ravana
without bothering about them thought,
“Can a human being ever
win over me?”
9726. Like
the land which
stands on both sides ,
When the water of
the ocean ebbs out ,those ,
Who were closely
standing on both sides ,
Seeing the great speed of
the chariot of Ravana ,
Unable to bear
it moved away giving him way.
9727.They were
standing there like karma and
wisdom ,
Which is attained in the end , just like avidhya
Which prevents knowledge
and the knowledge and
Just like great sin and Dharma which always gives
results,
And hit each other
.
9728. They
stood fighting with each
other just like .
The thousand headed Adhi Sesha and Garuda
the king of birds .
And just like
midnight and middle of the day.
9729.They were
like the victorious and
angry elephants of directions
Fighting hating
each other and apart from that they
were ,
Similar to Lord Narasimha and the Hiranya who was like a golden mountain.
9730.Once upon a time
due to two bows making
great sound ,
For the sake of the devas who wanted to know “Who is the greater god?”
Lord Vishnu who
touched all the three worlds with his
feet ,
And Lord
Shiva stood opposing each other
and these two look liked them.
9731. With Lord Shiva
and Lord Brahma with
their hands getting
unstable ,
As well as shiver
, With the ancient universe breaking
and splitting,
Ravana
boomed with his conch
which was used earlier when he won over
the Devas.
9732.Unable to
tolerate that conch , making the
sound of conch,
Getting inferior and making the Devas ask “Whose is that conch?”
The white conch of Lord Vishnu boomed by itself.
9733.The five weapons
of Lord Vishnu were standing near Rama
,
To serve him
but he who was
not recognized by Vedas
AS the truth without lies
did not notice them.
9734. At that time
Mathali boomed in to the conch
of Indra ,
Who was wearing a garland made
of different flowers ,
Making the
directions , sky , the ocean
with tides ,
Mountains , the
great Devas and universe shiver.
9735, Even before
the arrows sent by Ravana making great sound ,
Touched the faultless body
of the pure Rama the arrow
like eyes ,
Of the deva maidens
with lotus like pretty face ,
Were hitting his
divine body and they were beyond
count.
9736.The horses with
eyes red like the red seeds
which were tied ,
To the matchless
chariots of Rama and Ravana who
had come to the war,
Jumped , neared
each other, looked at each other
spitting fire ,
And were looking at each other as if they would like to swallow each other.
9737. The Veena
which was in the flag of Ravana and the thunder ,
Which was in the
flag of Ravana raised their voices with great sound,
Again and
again Saying that the earth
and sky would lose
Their usual nature
and would get destroyed .”
9738.The twang sound of the bow raised by that Ravana
Who had cruel
eyes like Veezhi fruit was
similar to the great sound,
Raised by the seven oceans but the twang sound raised by the lord of the wheels ,
Was similar to
the thunder during great rains at final deluge.
9739.All the
great angry monkey heroes
led by Hanuman,
Hearing this sound fell on the ground and except
lamenting ,
“What can we do now”?’
there was nothing else that they
could do ,
With a tied mind
they became action less .
9740. The devas without knowing “What is likely to
happen?’, not able to think
“who will win in this war
?”, got worried , and because of it,
They would go , return back
, would get scared and after ,
mental sorrow , they became unable to do anything.
mental sorrow , they became unable to do anything.
9741 As soon as the strong arrows of Rama started aiming ,
At the distant sky , all the flowers
rained by devas
Who had come to seen the war beautified
the sky ,
How can
people support pride ?
9742. The bow of Rama who had the capacity to rule the
entire world ,
And the bow of Ravana
which cannot be touched and removed
by any one else ,
Were shining
opposite to each other like the rain bow in the sky ,
Along with the
lightning which were like its
strings.
9743.It looks
that the roar of Ravana that day with his own voice,
And the sound he raised
from his mountain like battle
bow,
Are still alive
as the roaring ocean and the
group of clouds ,
Which keep on making
sound through thunders do not have any end.
9744.If we think
without any fault , the thunders that
fall on the earth ,
Are not rain from clouds
and the fire that came out from eyes,
Of that Ravana are the ones that travel in the sky , and they only fall as thunder.
9745.That Ravana
who got mentally upset on seeing Lord Vishnu,
Laughed loudly
making all the four directions totter
,
And hearing that
the toungue and feet of Devas
started to shake,
And the city of Lanka churned by lot
of clouds started shivering
.
9746. The luster
of the weapon that surrounded
Ravana on both sides ,
Were ones
which went through different directions ,
And they
burnt everything without getting
destroyed and
Even now the fire that
is released from crushed clouds ,
Became
lightning and also thunders.
9747. Without
killing this lad by using arrows , I shall take him,
Along with the
chariot of Indra , throw and spin
him in the sky
And dash him against the earth “said Ravana and then shouted very loudly.
9748.”Has this man been blessed with a cruel bow
which is personification of lightning,
Which destroys the capacity of other people to attack him? I would
destroy his strength,
Powder his divine
chariot and imprison him along
with his matchless bow” Said Ravana.
9749.The cruel Ravana
who had a shivering mind , the
anger that rises in between,
The fire like eyes
whose sight is directed to all corners sent
lustrous arrows from the tip ,
Of his bow by
bending the erect bow which were
like the troubling storm like
thunder.
9750.Those arrows were like great thunder , like fire
, were capable of piercing,
The chest of the all powerful God of death , capable of multiplying like rain,
Were made by the
Devas , capable of straitening so
that the connection is cut off,
And bigger than
the big snake that encircled Mandhara
mountain during churning for nectar.
9751. The Devas suspected that those arrows would split
the big Meru mountain,
Pierce it and
without standing there ,
pierce the sky and
go further.
But that storm of arrows
was prevented in the middle
by,
The ocean of grace Rama by the rain of
his golden and cruel arrows.
9752.Like a
work done with effort done by a
leader are destroyed by his evil acts,
By creating road blocks, the arrows of Ravana lost their power but ,
That cruel Ravana
sent arrow rain using arrows best
to be kept on the bow,
And having great
measure ,which was similar to the
heavy black clouds,
Descending on the
earth during the final deluge.
9753.Those arrows covered the sky , hid
the directions , covered the mountains,
Covered the eyes
of the Devas, made the huge oceans as
not visible ,
Hid the land, made a lie the statement that others are wise ,
Came coated with
fire , came along with darkness and
seeing this,
Lord shiva who covers himself with elephant hide wondered “What a great art of war?”
9754, Great Gods
other than Lord Shiva , sages and all others closed
their eyes,
By their palms
and were inactive and the monkey army became similar ,
To the state when thousand thunders fell on them together and seeing
this,
The very able Rama
started with desire acts
to stop the arrows of Ravana.
9755.The sharp and
cruel arrows sent
by that primeval one , after he
entered ,
Started growing like
the result of charity of
food given during famine to ,
The Brahmin who were doing fire sacrifice but the arrows
that were sent by Ravana ,
Were like the result
of sins committed
intentionally and were destroyed.
9756.That
Ravana who was blessed with
never ending valour , within a second,
Would sent hundred
thousand sharp arrows
and those arrows would be,
Cut in to pieces
by matchless Rama and due to
those burning pieces ,
Drinking away the water , the water of oceans dried and became a slushy
mud mountain.
9757. In the next second
Ravana who is an expert in
fighting strong and cruel war,
And who knew the
art of war , sent against Rama who was
sending arrows at him using his bow,
Threw several weapons
like axes and pestle and the very strong rings , wheels and spears ,
And several other weapons.
9758. When Rama
who is of the colour of the cloud sent
several types of arrows,
They flew like wind
, changed in to fire , sounded
like thunder , picked up speed,
Gave birth to new arrows
and as soon one of hit
the thousand spears , thousand
axes ,
Thousand arrows
and thousand other weapons of
Ravana were destroyed.
9759 . During the time Rama was fighting
with him in a equal manner ,
Ravana who was
suffering like an elephant troubled
by the long goad,
Took ten arrows
by his ten hands and sent them
and they went like ,
The rain
showered by innumerable
clouds in section by section.
9760. When the rain of arrows sent by that God Rama neared
the fire spitting,
Cruel rain of
arrows sent by Ravana , they
closed the distance between them,
And then the five elements starting from earth , became
enthused on seeing the war,
Became ones with
hair standing erect but due to heat of arrows they suffered great heat.
9761.At that time the chariot of Ravana , rose on to the sky,
Like the Mandhara
mountain , like the medicine mountain brought by Hanuman,
Like the ancient
three cities and like the city
of Gandharwas became visible on
the sky.
9762. The rain of arrows that was showered by the king of lanka ,
From the tall chariot standing on the sky going through their bodies ,
Just like the
saying that “That which cannot be
destroyed was destroyed”,
The monkey clan speedily met with their death , even when Rama was
watching.
9763.Seeing
this Rama told Matali, “ Our army which was like young
bulls have died”,
And so I would
attack Ravana with my arrows so that
his shoulders ,
Which are like a drum
and his crowns worn on many heads
would fall down.
So please take
this chariot on the sky , would that
sky be able to protect him” said he.
9764. Matali who knew about the greatness of Rama said ,
“I will do like that”,
And took up the
chariot which was like the wind
at deluge and that big chariot,
Just like
the Sun system on the moon system went and reached the place of Ravana ’s chariot.
9765. Then the chariots of Rama as well
as Ravana wandered straight for the battle,
And due to
that the cloud collections became weak in all directions ,
And becoming exhausted went away and
the groups of star changed their positions,
And became and
fell like dust and the tall peaks of mountains broke up.
9766 Those
chariots would go around each
other in clockwise directions,
And after rotating
several times would touch the sky as well as the earth ,
At other times they would go from left to right and the tops of mountains,
And the whole
universe would rotate like potter’s wheel and start shivering.
9767 Within that short time when a black gram can roll , those chariots
,
Were capable of going around the earth and even the experience devas,
Were not able to
tell , “this is Rama ‘s chariot and
this is Ravana ‘s chariot”,
And they were
looking like two lustrous shapes going round.
9768.The Stars
which did not fall being hit by their wheels,
The mountains
which did not melt when fire sparks came
out,
When they hit each other
, the directions which did not split
,
And beings that did not vomit became
scarce to be seen.
9769,Devas some times
would say that those who
fight were in Indra LOka,
And some times say on the moon and
some times would say,
In the place of
Brahma who lives on a flower and would,
Some times say , “No, no, they are on the Mandhara mountains.”
9770.Those devas
who knew what is happening at a
distance ,
Would say they
both are in the middle of ocean
of milk,
And say “They are
in the western sea”, and some times,
Say “in the east”and some times say that thunder lives on the
wheels of their chariots.
9771.Some times
they will ask, “Have they come back to the earth?”,
And some other time ask, “Has the sky split and have they
fallen down”,
They would ask ,
“Have they gone to Patala ?” sometimes
,
They would enquire, “Are these the horses from their
chariots?”
And say “This is
the new wind, The world has been
destroyed”
9772 And
those chariots wandered like the storm at deluge
,
In seven oceans ,
seven islands and seven mountains ,
With the boundary wall of the universe as their limit ,
And became one without rest.
9773.As if the
seven seas which were dressing
the earth ,
Seven worlds and
the islands in between them,
The seven mountains
were kept as pledged goods by Ravana,
The weapons that he threw fell on them like rain drops.
9774.The weapons thrown by Ravana did not stay any where ,
And in all the
places they travelled would destroy the
worlds and wander,
While the great
Rama except breaking and cutting those
weapons ,
Did not undertake any act with anger in the midst of
the war.
9775.That storm
at deluge which was churning the mountains ,
The oceans , the
lustrous worlds at top and bottom ,
And all the worlds through which it travelled ,
Within a second
reached the city of Lanka.
9776.The horses
which drew those chariots as
managed by those ,
Expert charioteers
went round all the worlds . whose
number,
Is three times the
number of sand particles on the
sea beach .,
Did not get tired at all
and did not also sweat .
9777. Ravana whose heart was burning using an arrow ,
With the crescent tip
made the pretty flag which was flying high,
On the chariot of Indra, with a mark of thunder
in it, fall on the earth.
9778. AS soon as that
great thunder which fell down in
to the deep ocean,
Making great sound
it turned in to a very great
fire and like a,
Huge strong iron bar
which was heated red hot falling in water ,
All the water in
that ocean got completely dried up.
9779. At that time Ravana hit deeply
the horses of Rama ‘s chariot,
Which does not have death
like the writings of great
poets ,
And sent twelve cruel arrows and hit the chest of the great Matali.
9780. The arrow which entered the chest of just
Matali , caused ,
Great sorrow to Rama , which was more than the sorrow he felt,
When that black
king of Rakshasa hit the
pretty chest of Lakshmana with a
spear.
9781.The devas who
do not blink their eyes
were not able to see Rama,
Because the
several groups and groups of cruel
arrows ,
Which were looking
like the split crescent
of the moon,
Sent from the well bent bow of Ravana
which was like rain bow .
9782.The very strong Devas due to
the wrong feeling that ,
Rama had been defeated
became scared and
The enemies shouted joyfully and both
in the earth ,
And the world of
Devas there were no movement of
wind ,
And their
universe were taken back.
9783.The fire lost its natural glow , the ocean did not rise and go down,
And did not have
any movement , the Sun did
not move in the sky ,
And went astray and returned , the
rain water from clouds got dried up.
9784. The planet mars speedily entered the Visaka star ,
The eight elephants
of the directions which normally ,
Produce rut stood losing their pride , the oceans did not move ,
And were scared to make any sound and ,
The tall Meru mountain
started shaking .
9785.The king of monkeys
and the younger brother
Lakshmana,
Became sad
like the forest
elephants missing their chief ,
Knowing that their leader could not be seen and other ,
Warriors were
pained like the fishes of the ocean.
9786.Rama within a
second removed and destroyed all the
arrows sent by Ravana ,
And with speed
went near that Rakshasa and
using a collection of arrows,
He caused
great pain to the Rakshasa and
devas got consoled.
9787.Rama who
happily lives with those beings
who take him as food,
Sprayed very long arrows which can only be compared with
themselves,
So that the mountain like bows held in pillar like hands of Ravana
are cut.
9788.That matchless greatly lustrous God who though his yogic sleep,
Can feel and know
everything , sent lustrous sharp arrows with spreading heat,
So that it can
pierce the armour of Ravana which does
not have any joints.
9789. Rama using his
arrows with attached flesh cut
and fell the flag,
Of Ravana Whose cloth
is attached to directions , which
causes torrential rain ,
Which had a part like the flower bud and
which had on it,
The musical instrument Veena along with untied hair,
9790. Like the
ocean which rises at the end of final
deluge ,
Garuda who had a
huge form like a huge ocean, when the
arms of Ravana got reduced
For the sake of removing the sorrow of Devas came to the earth ,
And fanned with his wings in several places and ,
Attached himself
to the flag on the chariot of
Rama .
9791. When that Garuda
who goes round in a clock wise fashion ,
The world surrounded
by the matchless ocean ,
Came and attached himself as the flag of Lord Rama,
The Devas thought
“WE would now not think about,
Only our needs , because
the angry Garuda has climbed on
Lord’s chariot.
9792.In that circumstance
, That Ravana who can cause great destruction ,
Understanding that
his arrows cannot harm that matchless
Rama ,
Who is the lord who can feel that which can be felt , sent an evil arrow ,
Called Thamasa which can cause darkness
every where .
9793. Some of the arrows that started from that arrow were having faces that spit fire,
Some had faces
drenched in blood , some had faces like Devas ,
Some had faces of ghosts
some had faces that enter the
mouth of the cave
Some had wind like face
and they all came like serpents
with stripe.
9794.These arrows
from the beginning of the
direction till the end of that,
Direction show on
both sides their teeth and they could act ,
After great deal of thought and had capacity to drink Sun along with the
moon.
9795.On one side
there was darkness spread and another light due to bright sun,
On one side there
would be cyclone and another rain would continue ,
On one side the
wheels would make sound and another
sound of thunder would be heard,
On one side there
would be loss of consciousness and another side
there would be rain of stones.
9796.When things were happening like this , the pitch darkness covered ,
All the seven worlds
and due to it all the being wailed with an open mouth,
And evil acts
were being enacted everywhere
and sorrow also spread everywhere
,
That pure
Rama in a proper way thought about this.
9797.He then took
the matchless arrow of Lord
Shiva who had an eye,
On his forehead
and as soon as he sent it within
a second ,
It drank that Thamasa arrow , just like the effects of
dream,
Vanishes as soon as one wakes up , the effect of THamasa arrow disappeared.
9798.Noticing that his Thamasa arrow was destroyed like
the lie which saw ,
The truth , Ravana
who had fire spitting eyes and folded mouth ,
Sent chosen cruel
arrows which had the power and the cruel wings of the eagle
So that they would go and hit the body of Rama who controls his enemies and shouted,
9799.After shouting
he sent an arrow called Asura
which had got praise from devas,
Which filled up stomach of God of death by sweet
souls , which made Indra greatly
surprised
And which was greatly cruel , in view of everybody aimed
at the body of Rama.
9800.The devas standing as crowd everywhere thinking
that this arrow,
Would swallow
this entire world in a
second were greatly upset,
And were wailing
because they were scared and at
that time,
Rama took arrow of
fire God and destroyed the arrow of Ravana ,
Like the powerful thunder in the crowds catching fire.
9801. Then Ravana
sent within a second several
hundreds of crores,
Of arrows which
would not miss their aim even if God of Death
misses,
Which could drink all the water of the sea
, which can make ,
Meru mountain in to powder , which is followed even by great storms
,
And which were
trying to cross all the worlds.
9802.Some warriors
would wonder and say “What
a great speed of hand?”,
And get surprised
,, others would say, “This is also an illusion and not arrows.”,
Some would say with surprise “Is there
sufficient place for this
arrows?”,
And others would think, “never before has any one
carried out a fight like this.,”
9803.That Lord who
was the primeval one of the Vedas , within a
second ,
For
destroying the evil arrows with
wings , which were
covering the sky,
Used cruel arrows
with crescent like tips and broke them open from,
From their big head
up to the bottom .
9804.Ravana who
was the greatest among those in all the worlds ,
Created by Lord
Brahma who have done great penance and get benefitted ,
Decided, “Now I will
use a new arrow which would do different types of war,”
And sent on Rama
the son of Dasaratha , the arrow
of Maya.
9805. Due to the arrow that he has sent the
devas got scared that ,
He would
completely burn and destroy all the worlds and become speechless.
The commanders of the monkey army also thought “ we
are destroyed”
And dispersed
from there and Rama
the matchless lord of the good ,
Understood about that arrow.
9806.Seeing that arrow which was coming as if saying “ to the people ,
Who live in this broad worlds which is carried by the innumerable heads of Adhisesha,
There is no further chance of living “ and
Rama who had broad and strong shoulders ,
Decorated by
several types of precious gems ,
using a great and cruel arrow,
Called
Gandharwa , which won over
that arrow also.
9807. That Ravana with ten heads then thought
, “I have a rod which was
Created by Brahma
which was the cause of Hiranya to conquer
all these worlds and ,
Which was previously held by an Asura called Madhu and using
it,
I would kill this enemy ,” and he
threw that rod at Rama .
9808-9809..
That Danda(rod) , which helped
Daruka to destroy the Devas ,
Which was similar to the matchless Meru mountain and the Mandhara mountain,
Which shined like
Sun, which had the property that it cannot be rolled,
By the entire world even if tries for an eon , which had
crushed the heads of Asuras ,
Which had in olden times
drunk the entire ocean
filled with pure water
,
And which had
luster much greater than that of
the Sun came and the Devas thought ,
That it would
break the universe like an intestine
and destroy it ,
And all people became dispirited , the sky became
empty and Mandhara mountain got scared.
9810. Seeing this scene
that Rama with lotus like eyes using an
arrow ,
Which cannot be even seen by the thousand eyed Indra.
Which had
hundred globes in it and
had the lustrous face of
lotus ,
Cut that
arrow in to hundred of pieces and dispersed it.
9811.Thinking that “Our enemy who is going to be
destroyed ,
Is exhibiting his
power with arrows and there is no
use ,
In sending arrows
like the ghost that cannot be destroyed
,
And so I would send Mayasthra so
that this enemy cannot
escape ,
And destroy him along
with the weapons that he
posseses.”
9812. After offering worship to the Mayasthra and saluting
,
Lord Shiva who he usually salutes, after thinking of the sage ,
As well as meter, he sent Mayasthra using his bow with an order,
“Go in all ten
directions and sky without being
tamed by any body.”
9813.As soon as he sent that Mayasthra
there was as illusion ,
By which it appeared
as if all the Rakshas bodies felled by ,
The cultured Rama
and Lakshmana in to pieces ,
And all the numerous bodies which fell with very many wounds ,
Got life again
and came again to fight and they
appear to make a huge sound.
9814. Indrajit ,
his brother Athikaya , all great army
leaders ,
And many other
commanders , other ministers ,
And many other
countless people seem to hide the entire sky ,
And raised huge
sound that made even the rain to shatter.
9815, The mountain like Kumbhakarna with pot like ears ,
And other warriors
, the Moola Bala army of
Ravana ,
And all the
elephant , chariots and horses
and ,
Different type of vehicles joined together and came there.
9816.Making al the
people living on the four
directions surprised ,
The army estimated
as thousand Vellam by wise
people ,
And all the very
angry ocean like army which earlier died
in the battle field ,
AS if they got back their soul because
of a boon from Lord Shiva , filled up everywhere.
9817.They started going everywhere after telling ”Did you
win over us only?
Is there a
possibility of our dying ? we will show
our strength today ,
Come , come “
addressed to the warriors who killed
them ,
Challenging them , making the Devas and sages run away
.
9818.Due to the illusion
several serpents led by Adhisesha
came out ,
Digging holes on
earth, they rose up above the earth ,with
great speed,
The mountain like crocodiles which live in the water were found
saying , this is not,
The proper
place for them to live and sky is a better place to live rose up,
And the
ghosts which were born by illusion
were seen wearing curved ear
globes.
9819.Those army of illusion who were
born out of Mayasthra ,
Which were capable of destroying Dharma , made
sages who did not go in untruth ,
And did a Yaga
which is liked by Lord Brahma ,
dejected in mind ,
And with shining weapons
appeared in a peculiar manner.
9820.Those who were dead but got up alive later , who
have teeth shining like the moon,
Who have increased
effects of illusion , who are spread like a wide ocean,
Appeared miraculously wearing pearl garland and came
near.
9821.They who were
like the lion that jumps , Yali
with bent manes ,
Who were capable
of preventing the war in all the
directions and the world,
Who were like the
jumping fire at deluge and
tumultuous ocean,
Armed themselves with lustrous thunders and cruel weapons,
9822.Seeing this
state of affairs , Rama , the consort of goddess Lakshmi,
Asked Matali “Is this illusion
or has it occurred due to fate
,
Or is it it due to power of boons obtained by Rakshasas
wearing anklets,
Or has it happened due
to other reasons , if you know
please tell.” And Matali replied.
9823.”Oh Lord who is the colour of rich cloud
appearing in times of famine ,
The ignorant Ravana who has a shoulder which has been pierced by the strong tusk,
Of the elephants
of direction has offered you , who is a blacksmith ,
A needle in which a thread can be introduced for price ,
And has sent against you the
difficult to escape Mayasthra.”
9824. “Oh Lord
who cures sickness of birth cycle and fate
that leads to it ,
To those who chant your name , by your great arrow this power of Mayasthra
Would vanish
like the birth cycle coming to an
end to those who meditate on you,
And like the
matchless power of chant that removes
the poison ,
From the fangs of
the cruel snakes with white teeth.”
9825.That Rama who
stands outside the limit of being
saluted ,
Or searched by the Upanishads which are
the head of the Vedas ,
Send the powerful arrow of Jnana(wisdom) with a request ,
“ Either by your boons or illusions or due to your great power ,
You please chase out
the power of this Mayasthra,”
9826 . As soon as
Rama sent it that Jnanasthra which is
great and very harsh,
It removed the
power of that Mayasthra just like one who due to ignorance,
, Forgetting his
state and getting tied up by illusion
getting rid of it,
When the nature of not following Dharma is changed and good feelings enter in to him.
9827. The blue necked Lord Shiva , Lord Vishnu with wheel and lord Brahma ,
Born out of a lotus
decided about the time when the soul of that cruel
Rakshasa ,
Should be taken and That Ravana who made all the
devas as his servants,
With an idea of destroying all that he saw , took the
spear in his hand.
9828. Rama saw
the spear sent by
cruel , Ravana wearing the heroic
anklets ,
Which was coming making the sound of thousand Kandams ,
Which made those
devas who saw it get worried ,
Which is capable
of burning the strength and clan
of those warriors ,
Who were opposing it
and which is capable of burning everything.
9829.That burning three headed spear came creating scare
with three types of fire
,
And made the
devas run away when it spun
, making the monkeys run away ,
Which was spreading its great luster in all the
stable worlds with everybody looking at it.
9830.Ravana told the spear “Please go”
and devas became jaded ,
And said, “Oh Lord only you can destroy this and it
cannot be destroyed ,
By anyone else and
please win over the cruel spear with big mouth,
Which is coming
towards you like God of death , Please register your victory.”
9831. The cruel arrows
sent by Rama which by their
speed was,
Even jolting thunder
and which was proceeding
like a cyclone ,
Were not able
to give result and
got destroyed like the ,
Evils done by atheists
failing to harm the great one who have wisdom sight.
9832. That Rama
who protects the world went on sending
all the strong weapons,
Of the Devas continuously
and they like lie and soft
cotton broke down.
Then the lord understood
the power of that hot spear
and stood there helplessly.
9833.The devas got
scared thinking that Rama has forgotten
how to act and has left off,
The job of opposing the
enemies and with dharma shivering
and getting thoroughly confused,
Rama who was born as man
stood without understanding his divinity.
And that spear neared him making all those who were
witnessing it scared.
9834.When that spear came for destroying , with spitting
fire , with ringing bells,
And speedily came opposite to the chest of Rama who was wearing lot of
pearl garlands,
He with great
hatred and great rage said “Hum” and with that
sound that spear was destroyed.
9835.The Devas got back their soul and shouted with great
joy and lost their fear,
They filled all places
by a rain of flowers and they
also danced and saluted Rama and told,
“You who have destroyed that spear , please become
the fire that will burn
away all our problems.”
9836.Ravana who was under the impression that the spear
sent by him would not,
Go away without killing
the enemy , stood staring at Rama who with his peculiar sound,
Of “hum” destroyed
it and made in to powder. Then accepting
that he has defeated him,’
Respected him for that , recollected the advice of
Vibheeshana who gave it when Hanuman burnt Lanka.
9837.He thought with great surprise, “he is destroying
the power of all my great boons,
“Is he lord Shiva?, no”, “is he Lord Brahma?, no””Is he
Lord Vishnu?no”
“is he the one who got great power due to performing
penance? He does not,
Seem to have the great ability to do that and since he is none of these,
Is he the primeval God who is the root cause of all
the Vedas”
9838.”Let him be whoever he is, I would change from my
heroic stance,
And would achieve victory standing before him as I am
well known ,
For my valour in
all the three worlds. If it is true that he who directly ,
Would kill, then the straight fame would stand firmly on its roots,
Whatever happens, I would not return”, thinking like this
he started sending arrows.
9839.He then meditated in his heart the victorious arrow of Niryathi ,
The guardian of directions and that arrow reached his hands immediately,
And he mounted it on his bow which would destroy all the honours of God of death,
And with his blood red eyes spitting fire, he sent it to destabilize the world.
9840.That arrow which made Adhi Sesha with big
head who carries the world scared ,
Came with several rows of heads, with measureless hoods
, mouths and bodies ,
Having more weight compared
to the huge Meru mountains and
entered.
9841 They were
like the mouths of Ghost From each of whose mouth,
Water was falling like a sea which has more of poisonous
water, from whose eyes,
Fire sparks were
coming out , which were crowding
and making the sky not visible ,
And which had shining
white teeth.
9842.It looked as
if that arrow would definitely bite Rama and after wards
Would definitely drink this wide world along with its oceans and the merciless
Rakshasa,
For the sake of troubling the world
, would completely destroy it and he
would powder it,
And those arrows
with heads of serpents came
spitting smoke.
9843.Those natural serpents dancing with their open hoods came as if they ,
Were going to swallow
the big mountains with their mouth and Rama after seeing them,
And thinking that serpents have covered everywhere chose the real arrow of Garuda,
Which never misses
its aim and sent it against them.
9844.Making one wonder
where those crowds have disappeared,
And the world was
seen filled with Garudas which were of golden colour, had beak, nails,
And mature wings , which was flying with speed of wind
with its cruel feathers,
And was looking more
like the world of Devas.
9845.Those innumerable number of birds were seen spitting great fire .
Using their
mouths which cannot be moved and
were looking like saying,
“We would defeat this Lanka which cannot be defeated by burning it ,
And it looked as if
all the devas were holding lamps to light up the earth.
9846.The shining gem on the head of the serpents were like a collection ,
Of burning fire ,
and those Garudas as if they were
stealing away lotus stems,
Picked them by their claws and using their sword like beaks ate them.
9847.At that time
the Rakshasa became one with
boiling heart,
And became one one
breaths long and gives out fire sparks,
Due to very great anger
and threw several thunder like hot arrows,
So that
there did not seem to be any
place in earth and heavens.
9848.Due to the very cruel arrows of Rama hitting
them on
their sharp mouth ,
The very speedy
arrows which were sent by Ravana fell down
and some arrows,
Entered the
chest of the great
Ravana and their tips were
visible outside his chest.
9849.That
Ravana who with great
strength fought in an equal manner ,
With Lord Shiva and who lifted the Kailasa
mountain on his shoulders ,
Forgot the
magical tricks that he had
learnt and due to that
Their divinity was
lost and Rama’s strength started
increasing .
9850.That Rama who is the truth in te Vedas chanted
by Learned Vedic pundits,
Realizing that it
was the proper time to cut off
the head of
Ravana,
Who was topmost among the cruel people , sent,
One crescent of moon arrow , cut his best head off and
made it fall down.
9851.Due to
hit by the arrow of Rama , just like the tip of the Meru mountain ,
Got broken and
fell in to the sea in the war
between the blowing wind and
Adhisesha,
The big head of
Ravana fell on that day along with fire
and reached the sea.
9852. All the people who live on the sky jumped to the earth, and jumped
and danced ,
So that the Trikuta mountain became damaged , threw their upper cloth
,
As well cloth tied on their waist , they sang praises of Rama , prayed and
jumped.
9853.Just like
due to the karma done the
dead soul being born
again immediately,
Without forgetting its earlier position
, with folded lips due to
anger ,
The head of Ravana grew up at that same spot and can
this happen,
Without him having
great penance earlier.
9854.With a thought realizing that , “that which was cut has not been cut
“,
As soon as the arrow cut it , a new head grew up
there immediately
And with great anger
, just like the roaring of rain ,
it abused the great Rama.
9855.And that head with eyes of poison which went with great speed in to the
sea , just like ,
It was picked up
by the peak of the mountain ,
went every where ,
And as if it was
drinking the tumultuous water of the ocean,
Which had the colour
of the cloud shouted and
made great sound.
9856. That Ravana
who was shouting making even
the great thunder scared ,
Became greatly angry
knowing that Rama has cut off
his head , sent fourteen arrows,
And hurt the
shoulders of Rama who is like
matchless letter “A” among the
vowels.
9857.After realizing that
Ravana has got a boon that
if his head is cut off ,
It would grow again
, Rama who held the stable divine wheel
,
Cut off the hand of evil Ravana which was holding ,
The bow which
had shape of crescent and made
it fall down.
9858.That hand
which was cut due to being hit by the victorious and harsh arrow of Rama,
Was quickly
replaced by another hand which easily caught
hold of his bow,
And no one was
able to realize that a hand has been cut and a new one grown.
9859.Ravana who wanted to break the pretty
hands of the Charioteer of Rama ,
And to reduce his
strength threw his hand
which was cut by Rama ,
And which was holding a bow which was like lightning , using his hairy
hand.
9860.As soon as that
thick big hand thrown by
Ravana who was having a lustrous ,
Diamond sword ,
hit Matali on his chest , he who had
great ebbing strength in his mind,
Lost his
balance with blood
pouring out of his mouth.
9861.Ravana who
had received the naturally
sharpened sword ,
Which has not been sharpened after
singing Sama Veda from hands of
Shiva ,
Sent a thomara
to kill Matali who was already
suffering due to hit by his hand.
9862. Making
people think that the life span of
Matali would be put an end ,
By today itself
that Thomara came spitting huge
flames of fire ,
Rama who rules all others and had a bow ,
Sent a matchless
arrow of five faces and powdered that Thomara,
9863. That Rama
who is the matchless lord of
wisdom , with a great speed ,
Of his hand
without let off sent thousand
arrows , which go far ,
With each of them giving
rise to hundreds
of arrows which would make things roll.
9864.The several cut heads of Ravana
fell on the tides
of oceans,
On different types of land , on
all the special mountains ,
On all directions
and in all places which are
visible to the eye , making great sound.
9865. These heads
split open by arrows of Rama
went and dashed,
Against huge mountains
, went and dashed against
stars in the wide sky,
And they entered
the ocean and sucked all water
of the sea including
Chura fishes.
9866.Is it not true that
once the result of good
deeds done over,
Several years get over
, all the other things like
fame would get damaged?
The Ghosts which you salute and go round Ravana now,
Uprooted the eyes from
the cut heads and ate them.
9867. That very
strong Ravana threw sword
, spear , Pestle,
Vajrayudha
,mace and the axe which would trouble like God of death
,
Which he was
holding on his shoulders , like
a thunder.
9868.When Ravana
threw such weapons on him , Rama
the personification ,
Of masculine nature
. thought that he would think about
newer methods ,
And decided that
he would decorate the entire body of Ravana with arrows.
9869.On his chests and shoulders which defeat cloud by their colour,
On his eyes and
teeth which defeat
the poison,
And on all the
other body parts of that deceiver
Ravana ,
Rama sent arrows and covered them like a nest.
9870.All his
mouths were filled up with arrows of Rama ,
His eyes were all hidden by Rama’s arrows and
those arrows ,
And the arrows
that struck his body went out
before the oozing of blood,
And all the entire environment was filled by Rama’s arrows.
9871.Due to
long arrows entering in each of his hair pores,
And without
taking his life went outside his
body,
Though his mind was filled with vengeance and anger ,
He lost his
power and sorrowed because he was spent up.
9872.That Ravana who in earlier times
had gone to all places of Devas,
And went there In
procession with blood flowing from his body ,
Killing the crocodiles
, lost his conscience and was
lying on the chariot.
9873.Seeing that
the Devas jumped and danced
with great glee ,
And the evil
karma got mentally upset and fell after sweating ,
And then his charioteer , thinking that he has become tired of the battle ,
Went back
and parked that golden chariot looking the other
way .
9874.That Rama
who was born as an incarnation to protect
the Devas,
Saw Ravana
falling down senseless after letting slip
his weapons ,
Taking in to account the Dharma of war , stopped
sending arrows.
9875.Matali told
Rama “If Ravana regains consciousness
nothing can be done ,
And so kill him
when he is lying there with difficulties”,
And then Rama who
is like a male lion replied to him as follows.
9876.”Is it Dharma
to kill one who is senseless and
from whose hands,
All weapons have slipped away and is suffering great sorrow
,
By going away
from the Dharma of war and I
feel ,
That the proper Dharma
is going away from these base methods.”
9877.”Which among those
scared merciless Rakshasas riding
on golden chariots with handle,
Would not salute
Rama with folded hands , after
thinking about his heart which follows Dharma,
And That Ravana
regained consciousness again
making the Devas scared.
9878. That Evil
Ravana who had eyes
that were reflecting
cruelty ,
As soon as he
woke up did not see
Rama riding on the famous
chariot ,
And seeing
his charioteer from the back , stared
at him with ebbing anger.
9879.”You have
turned the chariot and driven it back
when Devas ,
Were witnessing
it and made that Rama
holding a valorous bow ,
Smile at me making fun of me “ and
then started hating that charioteer.
9880.”Oh evil one who cannot be tolerated , as I was under the impression,
That you would
protect me , You are leading a life of wealth and comfort,
And as a
compensation to all that , you made my enemies
think,
That I am one
scared of war .Would you continue to live”,
Saying this Ravana
suddenly stood up .
9881. Looking at
the sword of Ravana by the corner of
his eyes ,
Moved near to Ravana’s feet and saluted them by bowing his head
,
And told him, “Be kind enough to hear my words
and please put out ,
Your anger which
is like the fire at deluge “ and continued to tell.
9882.”Oh Lord ,
When I noticed that your valorous strength was reducing,
Thinking that if you continue to remain in that place ,
Your soul would be taken away from you and to remove your sorrow ,
I did bring the
chariot this way and my action was truthful.”
9883.”It is the
duty of the charioteer when he decides
that ,
Definitely death would come to his lord
based on the strength ,
As well as his
tiresomeness to a take action to help him recover.
Your deciding me
to punish with the sword is improper , please understand my intention.”
9884.When the charioteer begged him like this , Ravana
thought about it ,
And taking mercy upon him told him , “Drive my victorious chariot
again.”
And then his chariot went and stood against the chariot of Rama,
And the evil Ravana gain faced Rama in war.
9885.And he then sent
crores of arrows which were more
cruel,
That even the God of death on Rama as if to tell him that,
He was not the old
Rakshasa but a new one with the sword,
And fought a very
ferocious war and those who saw that war were
scared,
9886.Like the formation of the sentence , “If there is
light , there is fire”,
Rama thought that as long as bow was hanging on shoulder of Ravana ,
It would not be possible to defeat him , he sent a matchless arrow which could even
swallow thunder.
9887. Rama sent
the Narayanasthra and cut off the
long bow of Ravana,
Who won over the
elephants which support and carry the lady earth
And cut that
fearful bow in to two pieces .
9889.When that bow which
was made by Lord Brahma was cut off ,
By the arrow of Narayana who has thousand names
and fell down,
Devas jumped with
excess joy and felt that,
They got great result for great penances done by them.
9890. He whose chest made the tusks of the elephants of direction brake ,
Making the Goddess
Lakshmi who stays on the chest
of Rama move away,
Sent iron pestle ,
spear , mace , pointed stick , sword
,
And the Kappana which spits fire while going on Rama.
9891. After cutting all the weapons that were
sent by Ravana ,
Rama who has
removed all faults from himself, heaped all of them in the
broad sea
And after understanding that all
the weapons he sent,
Could not win over
Ravana , got engaged in search for more suitable weapons.
9892.When he thought
over he remembered the
weapons which were smaller,
Than the small
dusts of sand and those which were tinier than the thoughts of wise
people ,
Went deep inside
the black eye balls of Ravana
and ,
They went inside
his old wounds but they were
ineffective ,
And he started
thinking about what
should be done.
9893.Then Rama
for the sake of killing Ravana , took the arrow ,
Of the four faced Lord Brahma who was born on the lotus from belly ,
Of Lord Vishnu and
decided that he would send it ,
Aimed at the
heart of that sinner and took a firm
decision.
9894.That handsome Rama
took that arrow of that Brahmin
who was primeval ,
To all beings ,
worshipped it , kept it on
the string of his bow ,
And pulled it
keeping on his shoulders
which were like Meru mountain.
9895. That one belonging
to the clan of the Sun God , send
that arrow,
Which was made for
Lord Shiva for burning the three cities
,
Which was used by
him to put a hole on the Maramara trees,
And which was
used him to kill Vali , aiming
at the chest ,
Of the king of Rakshasas which does not
mind being hit,
By sharpened arrows and which was shining like fire.
9896.The Brahmastra
which left the hand of Rama who is lord Vishnu,
Went with the speed
which was not attained by wind
and the cruel fire,
And went with four faces
which belonged to the four directions,
And went due to the power of root chant of Lord
Brahma towards Ravana.
9897.The intense
cruel light of that arrow , removed all the darkness ,
And just like
the Sun at Deluge and just like matchless fire worm,
Flew outside the
horizon and the oceans filled with
water.
9898.At that instant
that Brahmastra along
with the divine wheel of Rama,
Who has the best
character among males entered
the chest of Ravana,
And made the
earth as well as all directions startled.
9899. That divine arrow sent by Rama ,
after taking away the three
crore,
Years life span of Ravana , The result of great penance done by him with great effort,
The boon given to him by Lord Brahma the first among the Devas ,
That he cannot be killed by any of the thirty three crore Devas
And the great
power of his shoulders which
helped him conquer ,
All the three
worlds and eight directions ,
entered in to his chest ,
Rotated all over his body
, took away his soul and went outside .
9900.With the
joyfully shouting Devas , Brahmins as well as
sages ,
Reciting blessing , with the shower of rain following
it ,
That black
mountain arrow went and took its divine
bath in the ocean of milk ,
After rising up
from the ocean of blood that flowed
from body of Ravana,
Who was having a mountain like chariot
, again reached the quiver of
Rama.
9901.Ravana who was like the crown to the clan of
the Rakshasas,
Just like thunder falling out from the black cloud, who was bleeding hot blood ,
From his twenty strong shoulders and
from the mountain like chest ,
Decorated by
garlands with the gem studded ornaments breaking ,
With fire coming
out of his war like eyes
fell down,
From the chariot on the earth with
face hitting the earth.
9902.Those ten
faces of dead Ravana
who had gone away from path of
Dharma ,
Was like one with great anger which has subsided ,with mind subsided ,
With tricks in his mind subsided , with enmity destroyed , with
the twenty fight hands,
Losing their
power to fight , with passion to
Sita dying away and
with eroded strength ,
Were shining
three times better making the sages
,
Who have
conquered themselves bow their head in shame.
9903.When Rama
ordered Matali, “Please get down the golden chariot on to earth”,
And when that
charioteer was bringing down the
chariot to the earth immediately,
Rama who had a
very lovable form and who was
the darling who made Dharma grow,
Saw clearly the dead Ravana from whose body blood was being splattered up to heaven,
9904.Then Rama gave
leave to go by saying “You
please take the chariot ,
And go back to heaven
“ and that consort of goddess
Lakshmi ,
Surrounded by his
younger brother and several
of the army chiefs ,
Went out of the battle field and with a pleasing mind saw carefully,
The dead body of Ravana who was lying on the earth dead after fighting great war.
9905. Numerous monkeys
as if they were dancing on a mountain
with joy,
Danced and jumped
on the head, shoulders and broad back of Ravana.
Is there a need to
find similarity to the
wealth which goes
to down trodden
Without any hesitation and does not bother about
bigness or lowly nature of people ,
After the fall of
Ravana ?
Is not the wealth of the base people , like a water bubble?”
9906.On the back of Ravana lying next to
the greatly spread scented ,
Flower garlands which he had been wearing which are being,
Ploughed by the
bees , like a pretty
ornament ,
Were the large number scars made by the
elephants of the direction,
Which had
very thick hands were
like the red crescent moon ,
Which wanders
around thick forests of clouds,
with its stains difficult to see.
9907. When Rama who had pretty eyes like lotus flower with anger,
Caused by the thought about Lady Sita of very tender nature ,
Saw the back side of the
proud Ravana and saw the
long red scar ,
Of tear , Rama smiled
making fun of Ravana and started saying.
9908.”Though Ravana has been truly recognized as one
who has conquered ,
All the three
worlds , he died today due to my arrows” and due to this ,
If you examine my
victorious shoulders . you would
find it shining greatly ,
But this Ravana
seem to have retreated in some war,
And has received
long red wounds on his back, showing that he is inferior,”
99 09 “On one side though he has lifted the mountain of
Lord Shiva himself ,
When I heard that he was once tied by the Kartha Veerya, I used to be ashamed for
him,
And I am now
seeing that he has wounds on the back,
when he retreated from the enemy.”
9910. ”Oh Vibheeshana who has a chest decorated by
ornaments ,
Now my enemies who
like to eat away everything would eat
away my fame,
By laughing at me
sarcastically , for having achieved
victory over ,
The very masculine Ravana who has
shown his back in the war ,
And thus this victory
has become a waste and the undying fame
,
Which is stable from the world due to death of Ravana would not reach me.”
9911.Vibheeshana who heard these words from Rama started
having,
River like flowing tears , long breath ,constant sobbing
and a burning heart ,
Told Rama,” Lord , please do not tell the words that should not be told”,
And standing pitiably
, due to sorrow which no being can tolerate told.
9912.”Oh Lord , The defeat by Karthaveeryarjuna with
thousand shoulders ,
And by Vali of
Ravana only happened due to the
curse given to him by Devas,
And now due to the sickness of passion that he has towards
the lady,
Who merits to be
saluted more than a mother ,and due to
your anger,
He has been defeated and otherwise which valorous warrior can defeat him.”
9913.”Due to his going to the limits of the world
and winning over everyone,
He was not able to see
enemies anywhere and decided that he would win over,
The mountain like elephants, which were the guardians of the directions ,
Which with their tusks pierced his chest , making them come out of his back,
And due to these only the scars on his back are there,
Because which
weapon of any of his enemies can cause
hurt to him.”
9914. “And in the
olden days all those tusks became ornaments
to the chest of Ravana ,
And due to the speed of
powerful arrows of God of death
who came booming a valorous conch,
And due to the
cruel hit by the fists of the son of the wind God , they came out of his back.
9915.”Oh God ,
except for those scars , even if
the poison swallowed by lord
Shiva,
Wants to swallow the Lord himself, Or even if the
poisonous serpents ,
Neared , Garuda
the king of birds with a desire
to kill him , none of the weapons ,
Which are in this
world or outside it which cut off enmity, would be able to go near him.”
9916.”Oh valorous
warrior , Lord Vishnu who taking
the form of a Boar ,
Lifted the entire world
surrounded by the sea on his horn in the early times,
And many others like him have undergone the misery thinking ,
When they would be able
to get freedom from Ravana and
even if they hear,
About the death of Ravana
by you, they would doubt it and would not come out.”
9917.Then Rama said, “Is it like that?” and got rid of his suspicion and shame ,
And then looked at
his own shoulders , looked at Vibheeshana and then told him,
“Oh Vibheeshana,
it is not proper to be inactive
due to enmity with the dead
one?,
You please perform
all the prescribed death
rites to him and repay your debt.”
9918.After the Generous Rama told like that , for meeting
with very many Devas ,
Who were very happy
, who had got rid of all their
sorrow ,
Who were coming to salute him and who were living
in various worlds ,
Rama went
seeking them and Vibheeshana
did the following.
9919.When the Lord
with great mercy told him
that , “ The evil acts ,
Done by him had
split our mind as if it was cut by
the sword,
But it is fit to be pardoned and as per tradition perform the death rites to
him,”
Vibheeshana fell on that
body of Ravana like a mountain
falling on another fallen mountain.
9920. Then Vibheeshana started wailing with an open mouth . making
,
All the beings on earth take mercy on him , and even
Devas and sages,
Developing mercy in their heart , so the affection and sorrow ,
Which was preventing
his detached sensibilities were getting
finished.
9921.”Oh my elder
brother , who was the storehouse
of matchless prowess,
Who had taken birth as the deluge to the Devas , Who was
the God of death to all Devas,
Contrary to
swallowing another being as soon as you
saw , Janaki, the great poison.
Which lead to your losing your life and you are a
matchless warrior
Are lying there
like a very common soldier in the
battle field,
Are you thinking
in your death my words though you thought that I should not be thought
off,”
9922.”Oh brother who had
the ability to take out the eyelids of the elephants ,
Of Direction so that they are destabilized, I told you that that your loving ,
A virtuous lady of a great clan who is
loved by another one liike her soul,
Would bring you unending bad name
and are you at least now ,
Understanding that
the anger that you got against me
then is wrong ?
Has your greed
which went on increasing and lead
To the destruction
of your entire clan, came to an
end , at least now?”
9923.” I told you that, “Once upon a time a lady called Vedavathi who curser
you,
And jumped in the
fire has come
now as this lady , Oh brother,
With mountain like shoulders “ and without bothering
about it , you got angry ,
Which led to the destruction of your entire clan, and even then,
Without making Lord Rama as your friend , you destroyed yourself ,
When I told you about
the strength of Rama , you did
not understand it ,
Have you
understood about it at least now?”
9924.”The boons given by Lord Brahma who sits on a
scented lotus flower,
And Lord Shiva who holds the very sharp axe along with ten heads,
Have now broken in to dust and though you did not understand his strength then,
But at least have
you understood it today when you have reached his world ,
That Rama is the
god of all beings.”
9925.”Have you reached
the heaven of heroes ? or Have
you reached the land,
Of your grand father Virincha who is first and greater than all beings?
Or Have you
attained the land of Lord Shiva who wears the crescent on his head?
Oh my elder brother , who without getting scared took away your soul ?
Let it all be like that, has the God of love
stopped the big games that he played with you?
Did the moon who was
burning you with passion become
cool at least now?’
9926.”That great sinner Soorpanakha blamed you , That “you killed your ,
Brother in law
whom you have not killed “ and keeping that evil in her mind ,
Waited for proper time biting her lips with her
teeth and has she ,
Unburdened her
anger on you now? Not knowing whether
the good and bad people ,
Would be in
heaven or hell and thinking that they all would show enmity to you ,
You fell from the high pedestal by your passion “On whose face are you staring now?”
9927.” Your hand
which had hugged the ladies of victoy in war
, of the knowledge
,
And of the fame ,
wanted to hug the great Goddess Lakshmi like Sita ,
Who maintained divine chastity which is beyond the
knowledge of Devas ,
And because of that
you had to give up your life , Oh
mad person who got bad name,
With the chest
which broke the tusks of
elephants of directions, ,
Alas you are
hugging the lady earth and
lying there.”
9928.Jambhavan , the king of bears lifted Vibheeshana
who was greatly wailing by
his hand ,
And said, “Oh King with mountain like shoulders , who is
not taking in to account the effect of
fate ,
Have you become one with senses and feeling , Are you
crying without getting consoled ?,
Are you getting
drowned in sorrow ?” and Vibheeshana became consoled and normal,
And at time the daughter of Maya heard about what
happened to Ravana.
9929.At that time, followed by endless lakhs
of Rakshasa ladies ,
Who had untied their hair which was decorated by flowers,
And who were Wailing
and crying came in a huge crowd along
With Mandodhari, who was always keeping her husband in mind.
9930. Like the bad name to a person who
does not take takes care of good beings and
Not helped by
kindness and charity getting spread all over the world ,
The sound of wailing
with an open mouth by the Rakshasis spread all
over the world.
9931.With the toe ring getting sorry
and like the anklets
wailing ,
From every tower
some deva ladies of
Ravana came
out and saying ,
“From today enmity with Indra has come to an end “ they
went to the heaven .
9932. Some ladies came
like clouds from the sky , with their call sounding like thunder,
Their beauty shining like lightning , their ornaments of ear
shining like bow ,
And tears falling
down like rain from their eyes and like
collection of clouds.
9933.They came
holding their hands above their heads ,
with tears falling on their breasts ,
With a drooping face
and they fell on the chest and shoulders of Ravana
,
Like the
crowds of swans which fall on the tides
of the ocean.
9934.Those
Rakshasa maidens came in huge
crowds and divided the body of Ravana,
In to head, legs ,
the tree like shoulders
, chests and all over his body,
And hugged the
part that was chosen by them again and again.
9935.The only sorrow those ladies had experienced till then was parting with Ravana,
For those
Rakshasis who were spending their time
thinking that , the only joyful,
Time in their life was when they spent it with him , and they fell on his shoulders ,
Who was the
several times modeled perfection by the creator and hugged
him like their soul.
9936.The Yaksha maidens
, The Rakshasa maidens
, the serpent maidens,
The sidha maidens who never fainted and
the Vidhyadara maidens,
Due to sharpness
of their love lost teir wisdom ,
Avoided all other
methods of endearment and
started hugging him.
9937.”Have you not
still forgotten Sita whom you imprisoned,
In your mind going against Dharma , even after your own death?
You never gave us your flower like mouth , did not
bother to see us,
And never were kind to us and now you are dead “ Said they and cried.
9938.The daughter
of Maya fell on the
brave and very great Ravana ,
Like lightning falling on the
sea with lashing tides ,
Started wailing
making even trees and mountains
melt and told like this.
9939. “oh mother, Oh my mother , what shall
I say about
the state of cruel me,
Should I die
after the death of the king of the Rakshasas? Have I left that principle,
Also from what I had been observing
? Was it by that mistake ,
That the crown heads
of my husband fell before my death
?
Are those heads
lying on the earth his heads ?What
shall I say ?
Poor great
Ravana, should his life
end like this ? alas.”
9940.”Did the arrows of that matchless one
search on the top and bottom of the body,
Of the pretty body Of Ravana who lifted
the Kailasa mountain ,
Belonging to Lord Shiva who wears the white
Yerukku flowers ,
For finding out where
his soul is located ?Did it think
that Sita who decorated,
Her hairs with flowers over which honey bees hover must have been kept,
In his prison of
mind and were those arrows enter and
search the body for her?”
9941. Did those arrows of the matchless
Rama split his chest decorated ,
By garlands of pearls
like open caves and
go away and cross all the worlds,
To a very long distance?
How did you lose all your
strength and ,
Fall down on the battle field after losing all the boons also?
Did one arrow of that man kill you who is the great Ravana?
I am not able to believe it .Has that one man so much
strength.”
9942.”The great
beauty of Sita who was like an ornament for all women,
Her chastity , the
love towards her of Ravana with
long hands ,
The nose that was
lost by Soorpanakha , The coming of Rama,
In sage’s garb to
the forest as per the order of the king of Kings Dasaratha,
And lastly the
great penance done by Indra brought
his end.”
9943.”I was greatly confident thinking that the end
Of you who was stronger
,
Than the elephants
of directions , Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu ,
Would never
come and I never thought that is a man who is matchlessly
strong,
Could destroy
the great ocean like penance
done by him,
As well as the
boons that he had obtained which were
his protection.”
9944.I who am proud
of the large number of boons that were
received by him,
Who had a life span of three and half crore years and whose
great strength ,
Was
considered by very greatly
wise people as one without comparison,
Never realized
that the ocean of
his boons which was like a
limitless ,
Mily ocean with tides
, would be destroyed by the starter
called Lady Sita.”
9945.”Who are the people who can understand the nature
of the world fully ?
That Ravana who
scared al those fourteen worlds ,
has left his body here ,
And has gone to
heaven . How is it Rama the man with the greatness of his boons ,
Has destroyed the
personal victim of the God of love who
using the sugarcane
as his bow,
The bees as the
string and the flower arrows used
to trouble him always?”
9946. Wailing like this loudly , with a broken mind , she hugged ,
The great chest of
Ravana which was decorated by many
ornaments,
With her tender hands
and calling him , took a deep
breath and lost her soul.
9947. All the Deva ladies
, Vidhyadhara ladies ,
Other Rakshasa
ladies , the wives of great sages ,
And the human
ladies with great chastity praised
Mandodhari.
9948.After this as per
custom Vibheeshana using
,
The procedure
that was laid out by the great Vedas ,
Collected all the needs for funeral ceremonies ,
Raised the fire
and with great sorrow ,
Kept his very
beautiful elder brother on funeral pyre.
9949.That Vibheeshana who was shedding more tears
,
Than a completely
filled up water pot ,
After finishing all the
funeral rituals ,
Offered the daughter of Maya who ,
Died along with
her husband as an offering to
the fire.
9950.After performing necessary funeral
rites as per the books .
To all others who
have lost their souls in the war by
offering fire ,
And after
completing the water
ceremonies Vibheeshana ,
Reached the
divine feet wearing sound producing anklets
Who is the one who is the only help available to all.
9951.That Generous Rama seeing Vibheeshana who saluted his feet said,
“Oh clear one ,
remove the sorrow that
is completely filling your mind,
And that is the practice of all who came before us ,
And like this
that Rama removed the burden of sorrow from heart of Vibheeshana .
Superb sir.
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