Yudha Kandam (contd)
15. Kumbhakarunan Vadhai Padalam
Chapter on
killing of Kumbhakarna.
(When Ravana is distressed, Mahodhara advises him to wake
up Kumbhakarna and send him to fight thwe war.After great difficulty
Kumbhakarna is woken up , he advises
Ravana ro give freedom to
Sita.When Ravana gets angry , he goes to
the battle.Rama sends Vibheeshana to meet him to request him to join the side of Dharma. He refuses and
ensuing war he is killed by Rama.)
7272.Along with the chest on which elephants of directions have pierced ,
With the shoulders that picked up the Kailasa
mountain , with the toungue ,
Using which he
chanted Sama Veda with expertise making
sage Narada say,
“Great , great “,
with the ten garlanded crowns that
he wore,
And with sword given by
Lord Shiva and without the
culture of valour ,
Which he put in the battle field , he
returned back with
bare hands.
7273. That
Ravana who won over Devas fighting against whom great experts ,
Had been
defeated and who was like Vishnu guarding all the three worlds,
Along with a very bad name that
never gets destroyed bu always
follows him,
Along with the
hanging twenty hands , which did not help him against the enemy,
And with great shame went back to his city and the sun also set.
7274.Ravana who was returning after
getting defeated and with great shame
,
Not looking at the directions which he had won , not
looking at the fertile city ,
Not looking at those
who love him , not looking
at the
sea like army ,
And though ladies who had decorated their broad hairs with flowers ,
Did see him
individually , he was not looking at them ,
But only at the
lady called earth , entered the courtyard of his palace .
7275.On the day when
Ravana who had imprisoned all the
nine planets,
Returned back defeated ,
the sword eyes of all ladies who were
having faces
Which were
like just opened Lotus flowers in the
day time gave pain like
the sword
The words
spoken by people also caused lot
of sorrow, just like the arrows of Rama,
This was due
to the reason of the sight of goddess of victory , who had soft breasts,
Which were falling on him till now , was now not
falling on him.
7276.His friends
who were his council members, wives with lustrous moon like foreheads,
His
friends who were commanding his army and
his own relations , as if the machine like ,
Ravana has stopped
functioning , did not follow him
and alone, just like ,
A male elephant coated all over
with sindhoora , Ravana
went inside the palace.
7277.After entering
the palace he sat on a matchless
golden seat and after his sorrows,
And pain has
reduced , he became thoughtful about
the future course
of action,
Looked at his
personal guards and ordered them,
“get me my emissaries to this place”,
And that job was done immediately by his guard and he brought four emissaries.
7278.Looking
at those emissaries who knew how to properly
perform the job,
Entrusted to them whose names were Speed of mind, speed
of wind , Marutha ,
And Mamegha
and all other thousands of emissaries, Ravana ordered,
“Go beyond all
directions and arrange to speedily bring all the Rakshasa army
wearing heroic anklets.”
7279.”Without
delay bring all Rakshasas in the seven
big islands surrounded by seven seas,
The numerous
pretty and strong mountains, , the Patala which is
below the earth,
And the
mountain called horizon, “ordered Ravana
and rushed away taking the orders
on their head.
7280.All
those who work as per
their allotment in all the three worlds,
Without
knowing the intention in the mind of Ravana , due to
the sharp spear,
Entering their
body sobbed and cried and asked , “What is the use of ,
This
elephant with trunks inside
the elephant shed ?’ and Ravana,
Went and
reached the flowery bed full of flowers.
7281.In
the heart that was fully occupied by Sita
who had a coral like red
mouth
Which is like sweet music and who was wearing
bangles made of pure
Gold,
Due to the
shame of the defeat completely occupying it
, Ravana did not sleep at all ,
And he was
surrounded by sorrow and anger and as if
wanting to empty the shame ,
In his mind which was
earlier occupied by Sita
, started giving out hot big breaths.
7282.Ravana with diamond like hard shoulders did not feel ashamed because he thought,
That the
devas whom he defeated would laugh at him , the people of earth
would laugh at him,
The laughable
enemies whom he defeated would laugh at him but was
ashamed at the thought ,
Of Sita who
had a long eyes which defeated the
spear, who had a red mouth ,
Who had a very
soft body and who came from Mithila would laugh at him and faded due to shame.
7783.And at
that time one who is specially
called Malyavan , who had a bent body,
Which was like
a bent bow due to old age
, who was the grandfather of Ravana,
And who was
wearing pretty heroic anklets came near the bed of Ravana ,
Who was
wearing a heroic anklets and took his
seat on a golden cushion seat.
7784. He who
sat on that cushion seat , stared at the present state of Ravana ,
And thought
that perhaps he was defeated in the war that took place earlier,
And told, “Oh
sir , whose power of penance and
strength never fades ,’
You are
mentally upset and your shoulders which never get defeated have faded,
Please tell
me what has
happened .”
7785.That Ravana whose
mind was full of sorrow, whose eyes were
burning like fire,
Whose nose
was giving out hot breath
like ten bellows
, whose toungues,
Were so dried that
unless he eats faultless jaggery syrup and not even nectar ,
By licking it
, he would not be able to find out the
taste, started telling like this.
7786.”Did not
the devas come to see the war between me
and victorious Rama,
Who had come
with a monkey army and dressed in the
sages garb , when it took place ,
And in the
battle field reddened due to blood
and which was surrounded by hawks,
A defeat which
is not
proper to the clan of Asuras took
place,
And along with
it a bad name which cannot be
erased has come to our clan.”
Said Ravana.
7287.”oh chief
of our clan , even if all the
people of the three
worlds
Who keep on
growing , lead by Lord Shiva who wears
the crescent on his head,
Were to come and assist me completely , my
very huge army, who can send,
Arrows from
strong and bent bows so that it can hit
the aim without fail,
We would not be
able to face , the prowess of Lakshmana
, who is the younger brother.”
7288.”When he
took away the souls of the numberless vellams of Asuras , who are
capable ,
Of sending
several weapons and killing him, without
leaving a single one alive ,
Or when he
robbed my respect by sending arrows
which hit failure at my back
,
That Rama who playfully threw mud balls on the hunchback so that she,
Could be
cured, did have only that playful mood and not great
anger.”
7289.”Though
the Asura army with huge and sharp teeth , whose body was no different
From
mountains were one hundred and two vellums strong , the number of
arrows,
That he sent
without missing its aim cut off the heads of all the horse
army,
Elephant
army as well as foot soldiers
and there was not even one body with head.”
7290.”If the
arrows start emerging from the bow of that
Rama, can we say that after
entering
All over the
world in search of Lanka , it would
take rest? No. even if it is deluge,
It would burn
the fire at deluge also. It would burn
all the directions that it travels,
It would burn the
mouth of those who speak ill of
it , It would also burn their mind.”
7291. “That
arrow would be full with
capacity that , if it is ordered
to break Meru mountain,
It would do
it , if It is asked to go beyond the
sky it would do it, If
it is asked to cross ,
The
heavens or dry an ocean still it would do it. To contain the power
of that arrow,
Crores of
Meru mountains, skies , earth as well as
oceans would be needed.”
7292.”If
even Devas who do not blink will not know when Rama bends his great bow ,
Ties the
strings to it or sending
of arrows from it, who would be
able to understand,
His act of using his bow and as soon as he wants to take away the souls,
Of the
angry Asuras , the entire world
would be filled by his arrows.”
7293.”The
arrows that emerge from the bows of Rama are like the powerful words ,
That emerge
suitable to the context depending on the context from ,
The toungues
of great poets who have goddess Lakshmi
within them.
And are like Thodai (a grammar rule) of their
poems and crossing that thodai ,
A
measureless sweet music and have several
decorative cultures.”
7294.”I
have seen the coming of Indra ‘s Vajrayudha, Lord Shiva’s three leaved
trident ,
As well as
the bent wheel of Lord Vishnu in very many battles
And I who have
easily tolerated those great weapons was
not able to bear,
The arrows
sent by Rama in the garb of the sage and
was greatly pained.
Who else other than me can tolerate and withstand
the power of that arrow.”
7295”.Along
with crowd of big,
black ghosts which live in the
cremation ground ,
With the eight
shoulders of Lord Brahma , two shoulders of Indra and
the ,
One thousand
shoulders of Lord Vishnu who kept
the entire universe in his belly,
Would not be
comparable to the power of one
finger of Rama.”
7296.”Among the greatly
famous and valorous people, even
if it is,
Lord Vishnu
with the red eyes , I do not think they
are equal in valour ,
To that Karthaveryarjuna and when further thinking
even that ,
Karthaveerya would not be equal to a dust sticking to
the legs ,
Of the younger
brother of the sage like Rama and when it is so,.
Who can afford
to stand before that Rama.”
7297.”Oh
sir ,
the bow of Lord Shiva which burnt the
three cities,
Does not
compare with the wonderful bow of Rama
and to compare ,
With that bow
, there is nothing else in this world and if ,
The result of
chanting Vedas does not reach the one who chants ,
The arrows
that start from the bow will not miss their aim.”
7298.”When
Rama ‘s arrows start they are
similar to Lord Brahma ,
When they try
to reach the enemy they are like
thousand faced Lord Vishnu,
And when they
are killing that enemy , they
are like the Samhara murthy of deluge,
And we are
too small people to talk about the greatness of that bow.”
It has removed
from me my pride that never deserts me ,
And is
there any need to have further proof of its effectiveness.”
7299.”That very strong bow handled by Rama
the man, is it in the west,
Is it in the east
, is it in corner of
directions , is it in the North,
Is it in the south
, Is it in this wide world , is it in
the sky ,
Or is it everywhere ? I who fought with him did not know,
And even now I do
not know whether it is on right or left
?”
7300.”He used that monkey as his steed and it appeared as if ,
He was riding on wind, or did he use
the fire as his steed,
Or did he use God
of death as steed? To say that his steed,
Does not have any greatness is
the opinion born out of ignorance ,
And I do not
know whether Garuda steed of
Vishnu can work like Hanuman.”
7301.”Like the
earth which carries those who dig it , Since that Sita with bamboo ,
Like shoulders had
already seen the beauty of the body of Rama
and his fire like valour,
Even the God of love
me and all others , would be
suitable to be called dog by her,
And so where is
there any need to go and find out her
mind.”
7302. “Oh sir
whose chest is adorned by garland
in which bees stay ,without bothering
When period of
destruction came to me from that Indra,
Lord Vishnu , And Lord Brahma
Who sits on flower
,andLord Shiva who holds axe
as a weapon who are all
not up to the mark ,
Now I have got a
very great enemy ,This is what happened, “Said Ravana .
7303.”Oh Leader
who wears garland of victory and who holds the
spear,
Who cannot be compared
to fire the long ray of lightning of the sky ,
When I told you about
the prowess of Rama , you got very angry with me ,
You did not bother to hear the sweet words with great
meaning ,
Told by Vibheeshana
who does not hate you , when you are not angry,
Though there was every reason for you to get
defeated ,
You did not bother
to think about it , but can there
be any reply to your words.” Said
Malyavan.
7304. “Though
they give sorrow to the mind the real relatives and those ,
Who analyze the
future happenings , did tell you
what is likely to happen,
But you did not accept them and you would see the destruction of ,
The groups of relatives , victory , friendship education and wealth ,
And also
the Rakshasa army that cannot
be destroyed.”
7305,When Malyavan told like this Mahendra
who was an expert in illusion,
And who was nearby
speedily came there , got
angry making fire rise ,
Against Malyavan and asked in anger
“why did you tell such inferior things
To our Lord.?” And later
he told several promises which would
not good,
To Ravana who
had a
greatly depressed mind , due to
the defeat .
7306,With an aim
of getting pleasurable result , if you do an act ,
Let victory which is against defeat come or let defeat come which
,
Would lead to lose our life , in spite of that the proper act ,
Of good people
would be to be stable in a
particular act.
If he gets
dispirited and with draws, it is to that one,
Who would get bad name in this world and hell
in the next life,
7307.”Oh king ,
Who shook the Kailsa
mountain making others scared,
Lord Shiva who
sent a great arrow
and made the three cities burn,
And Lord Vishnu who
measured all the
three worlds in one step
Were defeated by you and when things are like that
,
You are getting
scared to fight the war with these humans.”
7308.”Oh Lord who is greater than any praise that any one can tell,
Those who win are
those who are defeated and those who get defeated ,
Are those who
win , those who are above all go down
and those ,
Who down really go
up , that is the happening of the
world ,
Say those learned
men who have studied the world .
Is there an end to
the strength ? and so how come ,
That you are praising the war of those
in sages garb.?”
7309.’If you release
Sita , would you not lose the fame got by your strength?
And if you do
not release her , it is better that
you lose your life ,
Can any other
thing happen? ,why should you lower ,
Your fame that
is destruction less and so leave this worry ,
Which makes you
action less , Oh king come quickly “
7310.”If now you
delay fighting the war by even a second , this city of Lanka,
Of the Asuras would be made like the fruit trees and the monkey army would
win,
Possibly to see this
The sun god can only drink a sip of water from
the cool sea and because of that
,
Why should you get dejected and why do you sorrow? Leave
out this sorrow?”
7311. “Oh my father
, Lord Shiva , Vishnu and
Brahma who were the chiefs,
Were defeated by you first, after that you defeated the devas,
And you won all the three worlds and made them work for you ,
You who are
having the strength like that , are considering ,
These men who
are like the dew on the blade
of grass as something great ,
And have made
a very poor estimate of Kumbhakarna , why I do not know.”
7312. “Oh Lord, , if you call that Kumbhakarna and order him to fight
,would not,
The enemies seeing his mountain like body go in to hiding , scared by that
sight.
If some is not scared
and directly fights with
him , he would take away the soul,
Of those dressed
as sages” Said, Mahodhara and Ravana
took these words in to his mind.
7313.”Oh very knowledgeable one , you would get everything by your words.
You have understood the best option . Is there any limit
for your love towards me,
And what you told would boost my stability” said Ravana
in praise of Mahodhara,
And changed his mind. When one nears death would something in between prevent it.
7314. Deciding
that sending Kumbhakarna is a proper strategy , Ravana
ordered,
His servants, “You
run and bring here Kumbhakarna
the best among males”
And as soon as he told that , as if the
emissaries of God of death was searching him,
Four people
went and entered the victorious
big palace,
Of
Kumbhakarna who had shoulders
taller than mountains.
7315.Those four servants
went to the palace where the
mountain like Kumbhakarna,
Was sleeping and
reached the entrance which toughens the cloud and said,
“Oh king , get up
from your sleep and with the iron
pillars ,
In their
hand and hit him on his head as well as
ears and seeing,
Him with a cruel eyes
still sleeping with great
anger told.
7316.””Oh Kumbhakarna who is sleeping , the life of
illusion is going down from today,
Please get up,
Please get up , from now on start sleeping
in the hands of,
The emissaries of
God of death who are roaming
like a kite.”
7317.In spite of waking him up using several
techniques , when he did not,
Get up , they
went back to Ravana and said , “Oh lord
who wears the scented garland ,
Fully on his chest , we are not able to wake up Kumbhakarna
from his great sleep,”
And Ravana ordered them , “Hear what you have to do” and
further said,
Make thousand horses and Yalis stamp on him one after another
and wake him up,”
7318.Then the army
of horses and Yalis sent by Ravana
started stamping on Kumbhakarna,
Still he did not
move from the place that he was
sleeping and that army returned ,
And when the servants told about this to Ravana he sent one thousand wrestlers and told,
“You are experts
in doing this type of jobs and so
go with your army.”
7319.Thousand best warriors thinking
that “Do end the mental worry of
Ravana ,
Who wears scented
pretty garlands , we would fulfill his wishes today itself”,
Ran and entered
in the victorious palace of
Kumbhakarna with,
Shoulders which
are higher than mountains.”
7320Wanting to wake up Kumbhakarna, as soon as the doors of the palace
,
Of the strong Kumbhakarna opened, entered in and since his breath ,
Was coming out and
in fast with a view to escape from its
speed and wake him up,
They held each
other’s strong hands due to their great strength,
Speedily entered in side through another side door.
7321. Those warriors from whose eyes
, fire sparks were coming
out ,
Due to the wind from the
nasal breath of Kumbhakarna ,
Who was sleeping
like the huge expanse of the
sea, saw that ,
Faultless huge
mountains were being drawn by the breath of Kumbhakarna from the main door,
And without knowing what to do , started
shivering and were scared to go near him.
7322.Those warriors
whose bodies were shivering having
seen the huge mouth and nose ,
Of Kumbhakarna ,
being scared to wake him by
touching , thought about,
Other ways to
wake him up and started making blaring sound of
conch,
Long pipes and drums
and sent it through his ears.
7323. Experts in use of mountain like iron rods,
and long spears joined together ,
They hit at the
jaw bones , joints of the body , chest
and head ,
And still not able to wake him up they
informed Ravana ,
And he asked them
to take series of long horses in a row
and trouble Kumbhakarna.
7324. After getting
orders from Ravana , they made
one thousand horses,
With bridles
which can run fast and made them
run on the chest of Kumbhakarna ,
In the form of a garland
, and as if they are patting his thigh , he entered in to a deeper
sleep.
7325,When they were
not able to wake him up by
driving horses on him,
They approached Ravana with heroes anklet and whose
legs were decorated ,
By just
harvested flowers , saluted him and told,” thinking that we can win the war ,
If we wake
Kumbhakarna , we tried all the
tricks we know to wake him up,
And we lost all
our strength and the horses running
on his chest ,
Have become weakened
, Is there some other method to wake him up ,
And if you know ,
be kind enough to tell us that,”
7326 , Ravana said, “Try to wake up Kumbhakarna
who never leaves me at any time,
Who never bothers
by his mind or body , even if
chariots with
joined wheels ,
Decorated by gems
as well as huge army are coming to hurt him
And who without
break keeps on sleeping ,
using spears which never leave ,
By axes , by tridents which never leave contact by either throwing them on him,
Or hitting and once he wakes up bring him here.”
7327.When Ravana told like this , they saluted his feet and went near ,
The king who was sleeping , due to their strength and expertise ,
Beat him on his cheeks by very long pestles and he
just like ,
A dead person
waking up moved from place he was
sleeping and got up.
7328.. That valorous one got up with ease making
the three worlds shiver,
Making the thick
handed elephants of direction which are
opposed ,
To each other changing
their position , making Lord Sun shiver
,
And with devas who
think that Lord Brahma who sits
on flower,
Lord Vishnu who sleeps on the sea and Lord Shiva
who lives on silvery mountain,
AS their
primary Gods , becoming startled and get
worried.
7329.Kumbhakarna born after Ravana whose
strength was beyond thought ,
And who is the king of Lanka , had a body that hides
the sky ,
Two eyes which
can be described as bigger than the ocean
,
Woke up and was
like Trivikrama who
measured the worlds.
7330. He then completely lost his sleep but not able to get fried meat to eat ,
And several pots
of toddy to drink , became one
with a waded face ,
And Started licking
the bottom of his mouth.
7331.Kumbhakarna with
a face that was angry and the red eyes,
Which further increases
the angry look took six hundred
cartloads of rice ,
Several hundred
pots filled with toddy , with
great haste and
Because of
that his great hunger
further increased.
7332.Without any trouble he
ate one thousand two hundred
Buffaloes and his
tiredness slightly got reduced ,
As he was one who
has capable of grinding thunder ,
And blow it
off like a fire spark.
7333.He had a
forehead with eye brows
like the tides of a big ocean ,
Looking like a curve
, who sleeps with the blood of
the food that he ate ,
Coming out through his mouth and
he had a tall body,
That when he was sitting, he was as tall as Ravana who was standing.
7334. He is the one
who picks up food in arm full ,making ,
The meat and the bones
falling down on earth .
Who had a thick
hand holding a lustrous sword ,
And wears diamond studded heroic anklets on his feet.
7335. He had teeth
which puts to shame the iron and steel,
And he ate
elephants which come to him as a medicine
to his huge hunger ,
And he also has a great desire to drink toddy which makes you faint.
7336.He is one who keeps the matchless spear well sharpened on his shoulder ,
He is of the
colour of the black cloud
which is water rich,
He has so much pride
that he goes to the war like the God of death,
He was wearing
heroic anklets on his legs and has
red hair growing straight up.
7337. Kumbhakarna
was one who made the teeth of Indra shatter,
By making him
dash against the wall of his own place
.
Who is the one
who uses the spear with his hand
.
And who has a
broad mouth due to eating of meat of lion.
7338.Even while lying down he would make the intestines,
Of Devas shatter,
He is a very strong one and he is the one ,
With standing red hair which is similar ,
To the flaming northern fire standing on the
still sea.
7339.When Ravana who has won victory over all directions ,
Gets angry and
shouts , the sun and the fire become subdued ,
Before that anger and
wanted to hide and Kumbhakarna
has suitable ,
Eyes like caves of Meru mountain to hide,
with folded skin ,
And which eyes
show that he is sleepy.
7340.He had a nose
which likes the cave of a
big mountain ,
Where bamboo grows well
which helps the elephants with
holed trunks ,
To eat them and
survive , and he
had broad long ears
Which can be used
by serpents for sleeping.
7341.When they told that he has be summoned by his elder brother ,
Kumbhakarna who
had a look like a mountain and strength of belief ,
In principles
went to the Ravana’s
palace which had ,
Entrances touching
the moon making the people of Lanka
make a happy sound.
7342.Kumbhakana
who held a spear which had learnt killing , saluted ,
Ravana who was
the king of Lanka which is surrounded by ocean,
Which had long walls and towers which had very many spires,
BY falling on the
floor and looked as if a mountain was
lying there.
7343.When his
strong help and famous younger
brother ,
Fell on the ground and saluted him , like a motionless ,
Mountain with long
legs hugging another mountain
Which had come to meet
him , Ravana hugged,
Kumbhakarna with
his very strong shoulders.
7344.Ravana made Kumbhakarna sit with him
, made him drink,
Several rows of quality toddy and made him eat meat ,
Tied on him white
silk cloth which was like foam of the
sea ,
And made him wear
gem studded ornaments which produced sound.
7345.When Indra lost his great power and was
running away ,
Riding on his elephant steed Iravatha , Ravana took the very lustrous,
Mask of the elephant with gems and tied it on forehead of
Kumbhakarna.
Calling it the heroes
forehead plate.
7346.With several
ornaments on him giving great light
like lightning,
Making Kumbhakarna
like a huge elephant
anointed with red sandal paste .
He applied on his
ocean like body divine and natural paste of red sandal.
7347.On the chest
of Kumbhakarna who stood as if touching
the sky,
And stood tall
like a poison , he tied the armour given to him
.
By lord Shiva
with eight shoulders who
rides on a bull.
7348.Kumbhakarna
who had the form , colour and eye brows like lightning,
Who had shoulders which touch the sky and whose
left side was throbbing ,
Asked Ravana why these
preparations for war is being made.
7349.Ravana said, “Two men with a big army of monkeys ,
Has besieged our
city and have also attained a victory,
Which no one has yet got, You please go and complete ,
The job of
eating their sweet souls.”
7350 “Oh has the great war started? Has not the sorrow
without comparison,
Of the very chaste
Janaki ended?. Has your great
fame grown ,
In the earth and heaven
been destroyed? Has the time
destruction come to you,” asked Kumbhakarna.
7351, “Has the battle
come very near? Is it for the
sake ,
Of the very pretty
Sita ? Have you not released that
darling of chastity,
Who is like a very cruel poison , as per my advice given to you earlier?
If you had not done it , this is the very cruel act of fate.”
7352.”Sir, we can uproot the entire world , and not only
that,
WE can build the fence to that entire
world but you cannot win ,
Over the great
prowess of the shoulders of that great Rama,
Nor can you
dream of hugging the body
of Sita.”
7353.”Due to your act
the nature of clan which did not
move away,
From the path of Dharma
which came to us from sage
Pulasthya ,
Has been destroyed and that is the reason for losing victory.
So how can you win , The nature of this faultless land .
Is like the nature
of water and this has been accepted.”
7354.” By doing this, you have given Indra the world and his kingship ,
You have spoiled
the Rakshasas who are your great
relatives ,
You also destroyed yourself and you have been forced to free,
Several types of Devas
from prison .There is no escape route.”
7355.”Seeing your act, Dharma
got scared of you and is in
hiding,
Earlier since you
sincerely followed Dharma , it gave you,
Strength and wealth
and when you have left it and are
,
Getting destroyed
, Who would be able to save you?”
7356. The heart ,
acts and talk of those
men , their nature ,
Of giving protection
to others and doing deeds
according to Dharma ,
Is telling the truth
and unlike that deceit in the mind , sin in acts
,
And lie in our talk
are done by us who are powerful Asuras,
Would we be able to
save ourselves, would there be and reduction in their Dharma?”
7357.”They have powerful monkeys who crossed the black ocean himself and
Who are able to travel like wind, Sita has not gone away from prison ,
Our enemies have arrows
that split open the chest
of Vali ,
And we are there
to bear them on us, So we have many problems?”
7358.”Oh chief , I
have one more thing to explain
using several ,
Such words
.Please understand it
clearly and if you accept it ,
It would be good , If you do not like it and are
not ,
Willing to accept
it , assume that travelling on wrong path , you would die.”
7359. The only way for us to escape
with our life , is releasing
Sita,
Saluting the feet of Rama and
becoming friend with
Vibheeshana,
Who is beyond suspicion, If you think that it is a good idea to that
There is one more
thing that needs to be done ,Please
hear it clearly.
7360. “Your being here
and sendpng groups after groups,
Of the army and
noticing their death , and getting sad,
Is not a proper thing to do, It would proper to ,
Send our entire army on the enemies is proper act”,
Said Kumbhakarna
clearly so that Ravana would understand.
7361.”I did not call you here to know
about what is going to happen,
Go to the war and kill
those men with very less
ability, to advice me,
You are not my
wise minister . You are scared of going to the battle ,
Your valour is worthless “Ravana said like this and further
told.
7362.”Being very unsuitable to fight a war in battle
field where valour is needed,
You only need lot
of meat to eat and several pots of
toddy to drink,
Closing your
eyes with holes you would sleep through day and night “
Said Ravana so
that the mind of Kumbhakarna would
become sad..
7363.”Living a life of saluting
those two men and that hunchback monkey ,
Is perhaps all right
to my youngest brother who
only wants to live.
And also all right to you
. I would not do the act. Get up
to go” , said Ravana.
7364.Ravana shouted , “Give me my chariot , bring all my weapons and chariot
,
Go and tell my order
to everybody .Let the people of earth
, sky and ,
All others come
and fight with me along with the
kids with two hands.
let them do a cruel battle “ saying this he started instructing his assistants ,
let them do a cruel battle “ saying this he started instructing his assistants ,
To make all preparations to go to the battle.”
7365.His brother Kumbhakarna seeing that act of
Ravana told him,
“ Excuse what I told
“ and then he saluted the golden feet of Ravana ,
Kept the huge
spear of his ready for the battle on his
right shoulder .
Said to Ravana, “there
is something that I need to
tell you.”
7366. “Oh chief, I am not in a position to tell you that ,
I would come back
Here after winning. The fate that
does not allow me to win,
Is pushing me out by my neck and so I would die in this war.
If I die like that
, thinking of your own good
please release ,
Sita who has
pretty shoulders. Only that would do good to you.”
7367.”It is definite that
Indrajit would die because of
the divine arrows,
That are with
Lakshmana and the other army of
Rakshasas ,
Would become ash before
the wind of their battle , After
hearing all this ,
Knowing the bad results
that would come , do what you think is
suitable.”
7368.”Oh guard
of city
of Lanka , if those two enemies
achieve victory over me ,
It is definite
that they would
win over you also, and so ,
It is not a proper act
to think about methods to win
over them ,
But giving back that lady
would give you result of great penance
.”
7369. “Oh king ,If
there is a mistake which I have done
from the first day,
Till now , you kindly pardon my mistakes. From now on I would not be able ,
To see you
and so I am taking leave from you
“ and then he departed.
7370.Then along
with tears flowing from all
his twenty eyes
,
He stopped blood
from flowing out and all other
relations ,
Became very sad and anxious and
when this was happening,
That Kumbhakarna
reached the gate of the city.
7371.Due to the order
of Ravana that along with younger
brother ,
A great army should accompany, a huge army reached there
,
Playing with the short stick, making dust rise which covered ,
The flower decorated heads of devas on which bees surrounded.
7372. The
flags that were tied on the
chariots , the flags
held high,
On the elephants ,
the flags held by foot soldiers
marching first ,
And all other such flags
were making a dense formation
and the dust,
That was raised
from the battle field went and spoiled the heavens ,
And the waving
flags looked as if they were
cleaning by wiping
7373. With well
recognized weapons rubbing and
hitting with each other ,
Fire sparks emerged
and fire sparks came out of the eyes
of commanders ,
And they mixed with each
other and because of it
all clouds got burnt and fell down.
7374 . The
chariots were going in front ,
followed by elephants , and crowding
them ,
Red faced
elephants were going , which was followed by more chariots ,
Horses travelling
like wind and like this
the front army was marching
ahead,
And the rear
army followed immediately without giving
much space and ,
In the middle the
middle army thinking that it is difficult ,
To march on earth
chose to swiftly travel by the sky.
7375.Kumbhakarna
got in to a huge lustrous gem studded chariot
,
Drawn by
thousand lions , thousand
elephants with rut,
And thousand ghosts which are capable
of carrying the big earth.,
7376. The army
that were following
Kumbhakarna carried alternate ,
Emergency weapons
like Thomara , wheels , spear
, arrows , axe,
The enemy scaring spears
, pestles , sword , plough
, iron rods ,
Huge bent bows ,
throw spears and huge dandayudhas.
7377. Several Asuras
keeping in their hands food
items ,
That has to
be offered speedily in a sequence were following ,
Kumbhakarna with bent long teeth along
with pots of toddy ,
Well cooked
meat which were
filled in thousand big carts
.
7378. When again
and again several types of meat and toddy were offered ,
By Asuras , Kumbhakarna extended
his very strong hands and
swallowed as if,
They are put in a cave from where they would not come out ,
Eating in excess
making every one greatly surprised and entered the battle field.
7379.This job of eating of Kumbhakarna would not stop with the
crowd of monkeys,
Would the beings of all the world be sufficient for his need of fatty flesh ?
Everywhere in the battle field corpses
were stacked and this was realized,
By the God of death
and devas not knowing where to go
, ran away from there.
7380.The very pretty Rama saw Kumbhakarna riding on a
golden chariot ,
Who was like the huge Meru mountain , the king of all
mountains,
Falling from the head
of Adhi Sesha along with the earth.
7381”.If one thinks that
his flag which touches the sky has
Veena,,
Drawn on it , the
answer is no. If he is seen as a victorious lion ,
Which is rushing with great speed , above his leg , he has
a huge form,
Which is difficult to look at and also he
was wearing ornaments on his
chest. Who can he be?”
7382.If we start looking
from his one shoulder to another shoulder continuously ,
Several days
would be past ,Is he the huge Meru mountain with legs,
Walking in the
middle of the world , It is hard
to believe that he is a
valorous person,
Who has come in search of war .Who
can it be?”
7383.” Due to his very huge body the light of the sun on the rising mountain is hidden,
And darkness has
spread everywhere and our big army is
sweating out of fear,
Seeing him they are
running away and oh Vibheeshana ,
Who has a mind
that does not cry , tell me as to who he is?”
7384.”Is this the form of illusion assumed by
Ravana , who left his usual form,
So that the monkey army would get scared, I am not able to understand?
And so please tell me who he is , so that
I can understand .”
7385.When Rama asked like this, Vibheeshana saluted both his
feet and said,
“Oh Lord He is the
son born after Ravana who is blessed
with many boons,
He is my elder
brother .He is Kumbhakarna who is black like God of death ,
And wears hero’s
anklets and he holds the weapon spear
in his arms” And he further continued.
7386. “Oh Lord ,
When that God Vishnu who is meditated by Brahmins learned in Vedas,
Lord Shiva
who meditates to know him, and also by Lord Brahma who ,
Meditates on him sitting on the lotus flower, opens his
eyes from sleep,
All the Asuras
would die and when this Kumbhakarna opens his eyes, the devas would
die,.”
7387. “Oh Lord who
is incarnation of Lord Vishnu who sleeps on the sea ,
He is the matchless brother
of my elder brother of
Ravana who does not live for
Dharma ,
Nor leads an ordinary life .His mind does not have inferiority and ,
He sleeps for a
complete period of deluge.”
7388.He is like
death for the God of death himself
,
He travels by his
legs with more speed than the wind ,
Using his spear
by defeating Indra , he wore the
garland of victory.”
7389.”When the greatly scared king of devas , without falling , was hanging,
He lifted the white elephant called Iravatha with its four tusks and four legs
And standing
alone rotated it
in the battle field .”
7390.”He is
one capable of squeezing fire as well as wind and take juice out of it,
He can
enter in to the sea
and capable of drinking all its water
,
So that all the water living creatures like fish die.”
7391.Due to
his body being extremely strong ,
He has very great
strength of the mind also and ,
By the great
penance that he has undertaken ,
He has
obtained boons as tall as the sky,.”
7392.When this
Kumbhakarna who wears garlands that hangs
Rotates in
various ways during the great battle
,
He is neither
like the kite or the property of any other thing ,
And due to his
sleeping till today , the world was saved.
7393.”Oh Lord
who has swallowed all the world , he
has ,
A spear given by Lord
Shiva who swallowed the poison from the sea,
And that weapon
of spear is capable of eating away ,
The life span of all warriors and he carries that weapon in his hand.”
7394. “if the
devas who have the luster
of lightning ,
Start a huge
battle standing before
us ,
This Kumbhakarna
has never seen,
Anything except
their back sides.”
7395. He is the
one who told more than oe time ,
The Ravana who as
cruel as the thunder that,
“ This act is one
that does not follow Dharma ,
And so this can only lead us to death.”
7396.”Due to his liking for truth , he has berated his
elder brother ,
Who has
refused to release the
lady and has told him,
The results that
are likely to come , in various ways,
And now having decided
that death is the truth,
He has
appeared before you.”
7397.He had told Ravana
that the act of his is not good ,
Whis is suitable word of Dharma and due to his not listening to it ,
He has appeared
before the God of death “Said Vibheeshana after saluting him.
7398.When Vibheeshana told like this , the son of Sun God Sugreeva said,
There is no use
in killing him here today, if he is willing to join us.
And if he
agrees we would do the job
accordingly and that ,
Would also remove the sorrow of Vibheeshana , the king of Rakshasas,
And I thought
that it is a wise decision ,
And Rama then told
that what is proposed is
suitable for royal justice.
7399,When Rama asked
about who is the best person to go to Kumbhakarna,
The king of Vibheeshana
said “if it is so I , myself would go and ,
By the power of my knowledge , I would wipe of any doubt that he has,
And if he is willing to come to us, make him come here” and ,
The cloud like Rama
agreed to it and also bade him
farewell.
7400.Vibheeshana then crossed the big ocean of the monkey
army ,
And reached his own big Rakshasa army and the Rakshasa soldiers,
Informed
Kumbhakarna who is greatly
strong “”Oh lord ,
Vibheeshana is coming
with great speed to meet you.”
And hearing that , Kumbhakarna became limitlessly
joyful ,
And Vibheeshana fell at
the feet of Kumbhakarna who was wearing
heroic anklets.
7401.That Kumbhakarna shedding tears like rain smelled the head of Vibheeshana,
Who saluted him , hugged
him tightly and said, “at least
you went away .
And have risen up and thinking about this I am extremely happy ,
But for what
reason did you come again , like those ,
Confused about
Dharma , shattering all my thoughts?”
7402.”Oh Vibheeshana who is more intelligent than the poets ,I have heard from spies,
About your
surrendering to Rama and your
getting excellence in this and other
worlds,
Which is difficult for even Devas and became
overjoyed within my mind.
Why did such a person like come in search of us who are sitting in the mouth of death,
And made us commit
a wrong ?Should you who are
eating nectar,
Which makes you live come to eat this poison that
would kill you.”
7403”Oh lad, Oh king, though , the greatness of the Pulasthya clan has been destroyed ,
Due to keeping in prison
the sage like lady who was
the wife of someone
else,
And due to you that clan has got divine blessings which can never be destroyed
Thinking like this
I see my victorious shoulders and
am becoming joyous,
But you have come back making my mouth dry and seeing that,
Oh lad my mind is greatly sorrowing, alas.”
Oh lad my mind is greatly sorrowing, alas.”
7404.You have
surrendered to Rama the great
worshipper of Dharma ,
And so he would
not leave you , even if he has to
sacrifice his life ,
And because you
have surrendered to Rama , you have
crossed “death”,
And you who keep on chanting name of Rama, doe not have sorrow of any more births
,
And when things are
like that, what made you come back here.
7405.”Oh dear
lad , having become a slave
to Rama , the personification of Dharma,
Due to his great charitable disposition have completely left desire, anger
and ignorance ,
Which are the causes of
sin and also have lost all evil conduct in this birth itself ,
You would not consider us
who abducts other’s wives, as your
relative .”
7406.”Oh lad who has good
culture , doing great
penance addressed ,
To the primeval God
you got just behavior and concentration on Dharma
,
And by the
boon of Brahma, lord of Brahmins
you got a life without death,
And when things
are like that perhaps
you have still not left evil called caste .”
7407.”Oh
Vibheeshana , The Lord of all
Rama is waiting with string led bow ,
By his side is standing his greatly
valorous brother who cannot be moved,
And there
are other valorous monkey warriors and
the God of death,
Is also waiting
to kill all of us and our
fate is also aiding that ,
How come you came here to get defeated and lose the power of your penance and Dharma.”
7408. “Oh Vibheeshana
, If you become pledged to Rama
the king of Ayodhya ,
You would continue
to live and because of that when
we who are all Asuras,
Are killed by the rain of arrows of Rama , you would be there
to give us all,
Sacred water with
gingelly for us who are dead .Please do
this.”
7409.”The time for you to come this great epic city of Lanka would come ,
When all the Asura
crowd who do evil acts are destroyed and you would ,
Enter with Rama who has
Goddess Lakshmi on his chest and you would get ,
The ever living matchless wealth of the city of Lanka as
well as,
The wealth of the
world and so to enjoy them, you please go back now.”
Said , Kumbhakarna
and for that Vibheeshana told him
,
“I have to tell you something” and Kumbhakarna replied ”Please tell” and he
told.
7410.”The valorous Rama
who gave protection to me, who
was filled as well as ,
With sweet grace ,
will also give you his grace if you surrender to him
and not only that,
He would
protect you by preventing all sorrows
and he would become medicine ,
For your
sickness of the birth cycle and he
would remove this domestic life ,
Which is like the
running wheel and also grant you
salvation. Is it not?”
7411,”Oh great and pure one , I would give you , the wealth of Lanka,
And its kingship ,and all others which Rama gave to me
to you,
And afterwards I
would obey your commands and work,
There is no greater assurance than that I can give you , Please
remove ,
The sorrow in the mind
of younger brother and also take
care of the culture of our clan.
7412.”Oh brother
who stands on the side
of justice and Dharma
It is difficult to escape from war and even you escape
, there may not be,
A place where you
get protection but it is death would come with speed,
And so what is
the point in losing the soul that you have?
You have to follow
good conduct as has been
told in the Vedas.”
7413.If those who
think Dharma has specially to be protected, do an evil deed,
Would others
think that you are a great friend , relation who was born with them ,
Mother ,
father and others? I know that you know about this? What
is the need ,
For me to tell you? When you dare to do good deeds, would
bad name come out of it?
7414.Those who are
brave in decision making ,
would give up , their children,
Elder relatives ,
wives , other relatives , soul like
friends and those who helped them ,
If they think
that they would cause sorrow
because such giving up leads to their salvation.
7415.”Oh sir, when a
person does evil deeds , for that purpose, does ,
Giving up their life
for their sake by people who do
not do evil , an act leading to greatness?
Are you not having the
capacity for great thought? Was it not for the sake of Dharma ,
Parasurama who had done great penance killed
his mother for doing evil
deeds?”
7416.”oh sir who has the spear which has the smell of flesh from the
wounds of enemies,
When Lord Brahma who was born out of a lotus flower did an evil deed , Lord Shiva,
Cut off one of
his heads , and did not Brahma
agree for that? Would wise
people ,
Find fault with
present life and fall in the hell in the next life?’
7417.”Oh brother
whose chest is covered with petals of flowers , the people of the world,
Cut off the boil that appears on the body, expel the bad blood that is in it
,
Burn it with fire
and tie it with a medicine to cure
that wound and
It is not proper and useless for wise people to rub scented things
in the sea.”
7418.”If we have to protect your brother Ravana , there
is no method to do it ,
And even if we live with him and do acts of Dharma, even
that is not possible ,
WE can sacrifice our life in the cruel battle making our enemies like Devas laugh,
And then we would enter hell .Except this , is there any proper method?”
7419.”Oh sir, .
till today , wasting your youth you
have been sleeping and waking,
Every six months
and except this , though you are
a valorous hero,
You have not partaken
in great wars and you have to
attain a low state in this world,
Is there any good
that you got so far? By sacrificing your life ,
And destroying
Dharma , what are
you expecting to get?”
7420.”oh sir, if
Rama who is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu
who has Srivathsa ,
On his chest
takes mercy on you , your curse
of sleep can be lifted ,
You would get all types of wealth and have also
get a deathless life.
You would also
rule in a matchless manner and the
right is yours,
There is no fault in this and the time has come
for that.”
7421.”That divine
entity who is the chief of all the
divine trinity .
For the sake of
fully protecting Dharma
, has taken a form,
And has entered
this world as the member of Kakustha
clan,
And if you get the
kingdom of Lanka from that God of gods
,
You would not become inferior and who can then oppose you?”
7422.”If you do not adopt the Dharma of Asuras
with inferior mind ,
But adopt the
Dharma of wise people , your sons , as well as,
My sons and those
sons of Ravana who destroys this clan of Asuras,
Would not get their heads cut off by the arrow of Rama,.”
7423. “Oh sir, if
you join with Rama , the sages who have enmity with you ,
Would have mercy
on you and you will not have any
enemy ,
In all the three
worlds and you need not worry
about death,
And the devas who
hate us will become our friends,
Is it proper to harvest
the flowers during the fruiting
season?”
7424, “Oh
sir, Rama who is praised by the Vedas
, due to the mercy on you,
Had asked me to
bring you to him and that is because
of his grace ,
Due to his great
love towards me and that is the desirable act ,
So without going away from Dharma, please come to see
Rama “
And then he kept
the two hot feet of Kumbhakarna on his
head.
7425. Kumbhakarna
took his brother Vibheeshana who fell on the ground with his,
Lustrous hair decorated
by flower garlands frequented by the bees falling on earth,
Ans catching his
brother’s feet decorated by heroic
anklets and wailing ,
Hugged him and
let out blood through his valorous eyes and
started telling.
7426.:”Oh son
who wears the pretty garland of flowers
on your chest , I would not,
Leave my brother Ravana
who brought me up for long years
, dressed me for war ,
By his own hands
and requested me to go for war
and not sacrifice my life .
But go in search of life of wealth which is like a drawing done on water,
If you want to remove my sorrow , leave me quickly and join the black cloud like Rama.”
7427.”Due to the faultless boon
of the charitable Brahma who sits
on lotus flower ,
You have adopted to follow the Dharma that never perishes
and you are going to live,
As long as this world
lives , You are the leader of all the world and so,
It is proper for
you to join with Lord Rama and
embracing ,
The evil death
would bring me great fame
.”
7428.”If our leader
who does not want to follow
advice wants to do an evil
act ,
One can stop him
and correct him and if it is not
possible to correct him,
Is there anything
one hopes to achieve by going
against him,
To a person who
grew up eating another person’s
food ,
The proper thing to do is to fight before that leader and then embrace death.”
7429.Is is proper for our brother who ruled
all the three worlds making Devas and others,
Salute him , be
killed by the arrows of Rama who wears bee
frequented flower garland ,
Along with his
fading , and angry Army and all
his other relatives ,
Without a
brother to sacrifice his life
before him, and lie dead on
earth?”
7430”.Is it
proper to see that
Ravana who uprooted the Kailasa Mountain
,
Which
belonged to Lord Shiva who keeps Goddess Uma with doe eyes by his
side ,
Using his
powerful and great shoulders , be
tied by the rope of God of death ,
And being laughed
at by others who were once
scared seeing his victories ,
And his going with that
God of death whom he had
defeated earlier ,
All alone without
having a brother to keep him company .”
7431.””Oh brother, I who have even won over the God of death, would never think ,
That the wealth of kingship of Lanka which is surrounded by walls ,
Made of molten
copper is permanent and start
praising the enemy Rama ,
Who is taking the life of our brother decorated by flower garlands ,
And salute and live
with a heart that is pierced
by his arrows.”
7432. “You would see me winning over Hanuman, Angadha son of Vali,
Sugreeva the son of Sun God , those Rama and Lakshmana
with the golden bow,
Neela who is of different type , Jambavan
and the ocean of monkey army,
Which goes behind fruits
by fighting them without any
deceit ,
Remove the fog
covering the world and roam like Sun God.”
7433. “You would
see me roaming in the
battle field like a kite making,
The monkey
army run like the Devas
who ran on seeing Halahala pison,
Holding an ocean
like spear in my hand and making an impression ,
Of an ocean chasing another ocean
and making the blue ocean,
Shifting from its place to another place
, making wind and fire ,
Run and making
the world run towards its destruction .”
7434.”In this battle field are there
any one who dare to stand before me,
Except Rama and
Lakshmana who are like the black and golden mountain ?
I would not allow
any of them to run in their
world carrying their souls.” said he.
7435. “Oh
brother who is so great that other
would salute you ,
You would hear me , thinking that my words
should be heard by
you,
But without
delay go back and desire
more friendship with them,
And I am not suitable
for you to speak thinking
that , it would do good.”
7436. “Oh
Vibheeshana , you go back to Rama
. You please protect us all,
From going to the
hell , which causes great sorrow from ,
This state of
suffering with the present body as per
the direction,
Who is the lord of
all beings and who is the lord of Scholars of Veda ,
AS per what is
truly mentioned in the ancient book
of Vedas ,
And do all the post
death rituals ,”
7437.”Oh Vibheeshana who would live with death
forever , Things that ought to happen,
Will definitely happen at the proper time , That which ought to get destroyed ,
Would shatter and
get destroyed .Even if stand very near
in support ,
That would surely get destroyed , IN this world who is there
except you ,
Who has faultlessly
understood that. Without
sorrow do not pity on me .Go
back.”
7438.After
saying all this that
Kumbhakarna again tightly embraced ,
His younger brother
, cried for a long time, looked at him with tear filled eyes,
For a long time
and said , “Has not the relation as brothers between you and me ,
Come to an end today.” And then released him from his
hug and
that Vibheeshana ,
Who was very
strong and victorious again fell at his feet.
7439. That Vibheeshana
saluted him and his eyes, face and mouth got completely
dried,
His body and soul became depressed and understood that no further
purpose ,
Would be
served by talking with his brother and going back would be better,
And returned back with
the entire army saluting Kumbhakarna , the
great mountain of culture.
7440.”He has left us who are
leading false lives , cut of
relations with us ,
He has gone
away from childhood .With a completely disturbed mind
Making the huge river making its clear water
in the salty sea ashamed ,
HE was shedding
torrential tears from his
cruel eyes and stood ,
With blood flowing
from his eyes.”
7441. The king of
Rakshasas who reached back to Rama , saluted him
and said,
“My father , Only
those who have the wish to escape from evil
,
Will have a mind which travels in the
path of Dharma ,I talked with
him ,
To the best of my ability but he did not want to
change his mind ,
And he did not show
even a little a little interest
in his clan.”
7442-7443.. When Rama after slightly shaking the
matted hair cluster that needs
to be cut ,
Which resembled a
pretty cloud , was saying sweetly , “Oh sir . , thinking that in front of you,
Cutting the body
and making fall your own brother would not be liked by you,
I told you these
type of words, Is there anything
more that needs to be done by us?,
Who ever can avoid
the dictates of fate “ , the sound making sea of Rakshasa
army,
Surrounded the
sea of monkey army , neared
them, and started the battle
,
And the dust rose as if all the three worlds have
been put under siege ,
And the sea could not push away that dust and make huge sound.
7444.Horses ran
in the battle field , the elephants ran ,
The huge chariots
with wheels attached to them Ran,
The river of blood
moving the mountain e=ran due to the fight,
Ghosts danced
with joy , flags rose up and
shook ,
Eagle and
other birds rose up in sky played high up.
7445,The Rakshasas
had white lustrous teeth
, had pretty gold like
shoulders ,
And being hit by the
trees and stones , the Rakshasas along with the huge swords
Became in to a
fluid paste with their brain , flesh
, bones and fat coming out
,
And the monkeys
which were attacked by the
tridents drowned in,
The blood mixed
with the paste of the bodies
of Asuras.
7446. The
Rakshasas attacked by arrows and monkeys
attacked them,
By throwing stones at them and the Rakshasas caught those
stones ,
By their hand and
threw them back at those
monkeys ,
And the monkeys
without retreating caught them and ground them,
Then the Rakshasas
started shouting at them and
the monkeys ,
Started pulling
them and they also did
other acts of war ,
Seeing that all the Devas were
extremely taken aback.
7447.If the wind that
drives away rain and prevents it from falling ,
And the rain which
opposed the wind were battling with each other ,
And seeing war which was fighting with the war ,Kumbhakarna
,
Was staring at
his spear coated with blood , making Goddess Lakshmi ,
Stop seeing the
place of Devas , Drove
his chariot to the battle field.
7448,All the monkeys who were based
on earth died caught
in the dust,
Similar to world
being caught in the wind at
the time of deluge,
And also drowned in sea of blood, and knocked
by huge elephants ,
Which had tied ornamental masks and
caught under wheel of chariots.
7449.Kumbhakarna would throw hills on the monkey army , catch them by
tail,
Swing them and dash one against another monkey , he would kick them,
He would allow them to go and stamp them with his feet ,
He would ,
Eat them and spit them out , He would catch their heads and turn them,
He would rub them
on earth , He would chew them and spit out ,
He would throw them on the sky , he would grind them and
apply on his body.
7450. He would drown them in sea , take them by hand and rub on earth ,
He would take them
and dip them in water , He would
wave them ,
And make them stand on
fire , he would beat
them on chariot and kill them,
He would dash them at the bottom of trees lyingin all
directions ,
He would rotate
and dash them on mountains
and kill them.
7451. The Devas were
scared and ran away , heaps of corpses started filling up,
The birds of the
four major directions and four corner
directions disappeared ,
The crowds of mountains lost their
importance , the several Vellam
of ,
Monkey army got reduced
in to a smaller number slowly
and like this ,
Kumbhakarna killed
the monkeys making even God of
death scared.
7452”.Let us make
a situation where we may not have any hill
or tree ,
To throw on others, by taking all of them today
itself and throw them at him,
So that the trouble caused by him would get over “thought
the monkeys and Kumbhakarna ,
Received them all on his two great shoulders
all that were thrown or kicked by
them.
7453. All the stones , trees , roots and grasses
that were thrown with great speed,
Dashed on his body
and were turned in to dust
and since there was nothing to
be ,
Thrown or kicked all around them and seeing that monkeys bit grass and died.
7454. Some monkeys joined together in to a crowd and like crowd of sparrows ,
On the mountain
they jumped on the body of
Kumbhakarna .
Hit him till their
hands pained , bit by their very strong teeth ,
tore his body with their sharp nails and understanding ,
tore his body with their sharp nails and understanding ,
That they cannot do anything more , got down and ran away ,
7455.Neela
took one matchless
mountain , half of which ,
was buried on earth
, uprooted it with a speed
of ,
The wind at deluge , rotated it on sky and threw it,
On Kumbhakarna
who using his trident
powdered it,
And stood
there with smile like as before.
7456.He retreated and thought
that his searching for another
peak,
Of a mountain would
scare his other soldiers
, using the strength
,
Of only his shoulders
as the only weapon ran against
that chariot ,
Entered inside
it and making the ocean and thunder of
clouds retreat,
Due to the sound
and making every one scared hit him by his fist ,
And he also kicked
him several times with his
feet.
7457.With his
hands getting tired and the kicked leg
getting great pain,
And seeing that
his aim was not fulfilled when Neela
was burning like ,
The fire added with ghee
, Kumbhakarna thinking that he
is bare handed ,
Did not throw the
sharp spear at him ,
I would weaken him and drink his life.
7458,At that
time Angadha who was seeing this ,uprooted
a very long ,
And very huge Mountain
making the earth making her back rest ,
Making all the beings of the seven worlds greet “the
brother of Ravana is dead”,
Threw it on Kumbhakarna who
held it easily by his one shoulder.
7459.When Kumbhakarna stopped the mountain by
one of his shoulders ,
That mountain was powdered in to dust as well as broke in
to pieces ,
And seeing that
one part of the monkey army thinking
,
“where is our
strength ?” and dispersed and ran away
,
But Angadha did
not retreat and with great anger further advanced.
7460. At that time
Kumbhakarna with great pride took a seven thorn mace ,
Which was difficult to stop and which was very strong by his left hand,
And ordering it “Kill this Angadha” and threw that strong weapon,
And Angadha caught
that great weapon and was
praised by the Devas.
7461.He then rotated
the weapon that he caught and shouting
that,
He would beat
that Asura who had
very great strength and ,
I would drink his life, stared with fire sparks coming out of his eyes ,
Jumped before the chariot like a big thunder and like
fire on the mountain,
‘And stood there before
that Kumbhakarna.
7462. Kumbhakarna
with fire sparks comng out of his angry
eyes,
Started at
Angadha who came and stood before him
told,
“Are you the chief
of monkey army Sugreeva who has come
here to die by my hands,
Or are you his son
or are you the one who put
fire in our city and won over Asuras? Please tell
quickly ”
7463.He replied, “I am the son of the Valorous Vali who tied your elder brother,
In his tail, jumped
to all four directions and went
and saluted ,
Lord Shiva who holds
the trident and I propose to tie you by my tail,
And take you to
enemy side and force you to salute the holy feet of Rama.”
7464.”If you do not end the combined enemies of Rama
who helped ,
Your father to
lose his soul by hitting him with an arrow ,
Then the
people of this world
would perhaps abuse
you,
You wanted to do a good act and would not
valorous people .
Who are faultless
come before you and salute you” Kumbhakarna said.
7465.”You did not come to this place to tie and take me to Lord Rama,
But to die with the
tip trident which went in to the
chest of the Devas,
To go in to you ,
making your hands and legs lie inactive
like your tail.”
7466.When
Kumbhakarna told like that , staring
with fire sparks coming out,
Making the world scared
, producing a sound like thunder
falling on mountain,
Angadha waved and
hit the pretty big shoulders
of Kumbhakarna ,
With seven spiked
huge rod weapon which
broke in to hundreds of pieces.
7467.When the huge rod weapon broke , he used
his very big hands and ,
Caught hold
of that very big Kumbhakarna ,
thinking that he would kill him,
Bend his head down but
the very strong Kumbhakarna ,
created ,
Several wounds on
body of Angadha using his hand and ,
Angadha fell down
making the earth split and within a second Hanuman came there.
7468Again that
Kumbhakarna started
throwing his very sharp spear
,
With proper aim at Angadha ’s chest , Hanuman came there ,
Uprooting a mountain
and threw it so that it would
hit his broad forehead,
And made great
sound greeting Rama
who is pure.
7469.Kumbhakarna caught
that mountain held it making one feel that ,
He had two heads
and threw it on the diamond like
chest of Hanuman ,
Which was like
the assistant of the black smith hitting hard ,
The iron
plate which has been heated in the
oven, raising many fire sparks.
And then slapped
both his shoulders and created
a sound that was like furor.
7470.At that
time the monkey warriors without
any fear took away the son of Vali,
And Hanuman speedily uprooted another huge mountain
which was hiding the entire sky
And looked at Kumbhakarna with
faultless valour and told
these words.
7471.”Oh very strong Kumbhakarna , I am going to throw this mountain at you,
And due to that
within a second your power would be lost but if
you,
Are able to push it away
, with your great power , I would
not fight with you
,
And go away from here and you would get very great fame in this world.”
7472.Hearing the words
of Hanuman Kumbhakarna opened
his mouth ,
Which was like a
mountain cave and which was like
the God of death and laughed loudly,
And said, “At the time when that huge mountain hits me , if I became at least little tired
I would consider myself defeated by you and my
strength would be less than yours,”
7473.Hanuman said, “well, well , if you are
strong stand there but if you
are not willing,
Go away with your soul
“ and then using
his big hand he threw the mountain ,
Which was the
cause of breaking of cloud at him and Kumbhakarna ,
Received it by
his shoulders and making the world
tremble ,
The huge mountain
got shattered in to hundreds of
pieces.
7474.Seeing that Kumbhakarna did not have
any tiredness in spite of,
The hit by the huge mountain , Hanuman concluded that the strength of ,
Kumbhakarna was
beyond human estimation
and that even groups of
mountains,
Would not have any effect on his strength and he cannot be jolted by any one
,
And only possibly the arrow of Rama with pretty shoulders can hurt him
,and he went away.
7475. Thinking that
“ except those who have died all
the entire seventy Vellam ,
Of the monkey army would die , by the victorious trident that he carries ,
And within a
second the position of
all worlds would change,” the
Devas trembled.
7476.Though the soldiers
of the monkey army attacked Kumbhakarna, only ,
Their hands got
tired but none could move or make fall
that Kumbhakarna.
There were none who caused any pain to him and Kumbhakarna ,
Completely eradicated
all the monkeys and due to his .
Masculine
prowess he reestablished his great fame.
7477.That Kumbhakarna who scared even the God of death seeing that ,
All monkeys are being destroyed thought , “have not the sage like princes ,
Arrived here .Is
there any other Lanka, where they have besieged?
Where have they gone? And then he called them in a loud voice ,”
And slapped both
his shoulders and making the devas scared shouted loudly.
7478. That battle field due to the death of many
monkeys and running away ,
By the rest of them
became an empty place and with its blood flow was like
the sea,
With less of
Makara fishes going up on high tide on full moon days .
7479. “The number of trees , stones and mountain which
helped the monkeys,
To fight had got reduced
and the size of the huge
victorious monkey army,
Was reduced to half
“ said the monkey soldiers to the matchless lion like,
Son of Sumithra
and he making the Devas happy
went and attacked Kumbhakarna.
7480.Lakshmana twanged the string of his bow and hearing that sound ,
The wives of dead Rakshasa soldiers removed their golden Mangalya and discarded it,
The earth trembled as if a thunder has fallen there
and for a very long distance ,
The sound filled all the directions and the ghosts lifting
their pillar like hands danced.
7481.The huge crowd of arrows which were
speedily sent by Lakshmana
,
Which were making
great sound not able to get victims and
which were having ,
Cruel form of statues along with feathers went making
the fire of the smith burn,
And went and
pierced and drank and took bath in the blood of elephants of great lineage.
7482.Some arrows
went and cut the necks of Asuras who had scored victory over the sea
tides,
Some long arrows ,
cut their heads and carried them so that
they do not fall there,
And because they were
taking them to the end of direction that.
They went , they
looked like arrows which were having
head.
7483. Some arrows which had the form of Sun god , went through the elephants,
Wearing ornamental masks , and killed many
Asuras who had not even ,
Stepped in to the battle field and like
serpents entered the caves and lighted the mountains.
7484.Those
speedily going cruel arrows
which were like several lightning
joining together ,
Which had the tip
which was shining like gold went and hit
the faces ,
Of soldiers standing in front of the army also hit the neck of those ,
Who were standing behind the last row at
the same time.
7485.The arrows
of Lakshmana went and hit the eye of drums,
Which were covered with leather , tip of the sound making horn,
On the place where
they were being played of many
other instruments,
Went and pierced
the neck of the elephant , on the
chariots drawn by horses ,
On the heads of the horses and the eyes
of those who were looking at the
war and spread.
7486.Due to arrows of Lakshmana all elephants lost their trunks , tails
ears ,Eyes which gave out fire ,
They lost their long trunks , they lost their front legs which helped
them to enter the battle,
With great speed
and they rolled like the
mountains which had lost its peaks.
7487.The horses
whose hoofs do not step on
earth or the sky ,
Due to the no stop raining of arrows
by Lakshmana .
Which occupied all
the directions and which went on
increasing ,
Fell down fainted, they were pained due to fall ,
Which made their chest
touch the ground and not even one
survived.
7488. The chariots
to which flags have been tied became ones
with dead horses.
By the red
new leaf like arrows sent by Lakshmana ,In many
areas,
They killed those
charioteers who were fighting as well
as the chariot drivers,
And due to
that the chariots could not move but they were,
Dragged by the rivers
of blood in the battle field and
were not standing any where.
7489.Due to the
hit by the arrows of the
matchless Lakshmana which were ,
Like fate which
give results as per their order . the heads of warriors ,
Were cut and fell
down and they were having big mouth like boxes ,
And were like the ladles
used by ghosts to examine
the field,
And were also like
the boats floating in the
sea full of blood.
7490.Getting spoiled
and falling as if it has been sown ,
And in its faultless centre of
round seed , the vibrations came out ,
Like the
white tender cowries and it resembled ,
The pots with tender plants got prepared
,
For celebrating
the victory day of
Lord Rama.
7491 When the burning
cruel arrows of Lakshmana were hitting continuously
Hitting their foreheads ., The elephants which were
taught the moves of the war ,
By using the
sharp goad and which were possessing great speed having lost their trainers ,
Went of their own
accord entered in the middle of the monkey army
interested in war.
7492. Due to the cruel arrows sent by Lakshmana who was looking like God of
love ,
Removing them,
the sea of weapons thrown by
white teethed respectable Asuras ,
Fell on all the
powerful directions with fire
sparks and looked as if,
All the shining stars
in the sky have broken and fallen down.
7493. The
long arrows which were well sharpened
in grinding stone ,
Going out
from the bow in the hand of Lakshmana went one after another ,
And pierced the
hoofs and back of horses
with cropped manes going with
great speed
And removed the flags of victory held by
the warriors riding on those
horses,
And also destroyed
the crowd of pretty and
long crowd of chariots.
7494.Though the
Rakshasas did not have mercy and
did not follow path of Dharma,
The deva maidens liked
their body and used to
embrace them and because of it,
Similar to
the saying that “knowledge of philosophy remove the
bad and good Karmas”,
It appeared that
great valour would remove these
evil qualities.
7495.All the Rakshasas
who do cruel and very sinful deeds
who were hit by ,
Fire like arrows
of Lakshmana which were coming like
the rain which cannot be stopped,
Died and if they
have all reached the heaven of heroes ,
then it is not proper,
For us to say that
there is a world bigger than
that heaven.
7496.The arrows of
Lakshmana which perhaps have
learned different types of begging ,
Brought one
Asuras hands, another cut the
heads , yet another cut the
two legs,
Which wore the heroic anklets , some the
two shoulders and several other parts ,
And because of
that they completely removed
all the enemies.
7497. Due to the fact
that arrows of Lakshmana took off
the hands of some persons ,
Ears of certain persons
and eyes of certain others
were like the
pretty Tamil poems,
Of poets who
used to sing according
to the presents that were given
to them.
7498.Due the arrows of Lakshmana who was like the sweet soul of Dharma
.
Hitting them
thinking that they would be killed even if they stay for a second,
dispersed and ,
Ran away similar to the blood flowing on the battle ground
. to all the four directions.
7499.Kumbhakarna of the clan of Pulasthya seeing
the number of people killed ,
And the great expertise in handling the powerful bow exhibited
by Lakshmana,
Said several
times that Lord Shiva who burnt the three
cities and Lakshmana,
Were the only great
experts in the use
of bow in a battle.
7500.Kumbhakarna
came to the battle riding on a very victorious chariot
,
Drawn by roaring lions
and which was like the northern
golden mountain ,
Which was driven by charioteer sitting on the wide chariot platform ,
And which was driven in all directions
and which was faster than wind and mind.
7501.When the Rakshasa Kumbhakarna with a bent
white teeth was riding ,
On a huge
lustrous chariot and was doing the act of cruel fighting ,
Hanuman thinking ,
that it is not proper for Lakshmana to fight
,
Standing on the ground
, went near Lakshmana and said,
“Oh younger lord ,
please climb on to my shoulders.”
7502.Lakshamana who was like a young lion climbed on the
shoulder of Hanuman,
And the devas
blessed them and the monkey groups
made great noise of greeting,
And the shoulder of Hanuman was broader
than the six chariots drawn by row
of horses.
7503.Hanuman who
does not have any other person as
comparison but only himself .
With the greatly
lustrous Lakshmana on his shoulders looked like
,
The silvery
Kailasa mountain sitting on the golden Meru mountain ,
And apart from there seemed to be no more comparison
needed.
7504. At that time
to fight the war with the
valorous Lakshmana , the cruel Kumbhakarna ,
Tied prettily on
his back quiver with different type of arrows
Took a huge strong bow ,
Which was suitable
to his hugely thick
shoulders and which was like the Meru Mountain,
And bent it making
the rain bow on the sky ashamed.
7505. “You are
younger brother of Rama and I am younger brother of
Ravana,
And we both are
standing to fight a war with
each other and the devas ,
Have already
arrived to witness this war
, we would follow ,
The ethics of
proper warfare as told in the Vedas
and ,
Fight a great war” Said Kumbhakarna to Lakshmana.
7506,”A creeper like
lady was born along with us due
to penance of good fate ,
She had not done any wrong and in spite of that you became eligible for victory ,
By cutting off
her nose in very great anger and I am
going to make,
Your hand that pulled her holding her hair fall on the earth ,
Please protect yourself.”
Said Kumbhakarna
7507.When that Kumbhakarna who was black as
if he was made of darkness ,
Told these
words Lakshmana who had shoulders
made of strong culture said,
“I would be replying you with my bow as I do not want to create shame ,
To my strength ,
as I have not learnt to reply with words.”
7508. Kumbhakarna
with fire coming out of his
making the Devas scared,
Thinking that sky
has been split in to two or the mountain
has broken or,
The earth has been
torn in to two , took eighteen
lustrous arrows and
sent them.
7509.Those
arrows sent by
younger brother of Ravana who was boiling with very great anger
,
Had earlier
pierced the head of Iravatha
the four tusked elephant and
also ,
Had earlier completely
destroyed the power of the
devas ,
Were travelling
like thunder and those
eighteen arrows ,
Were cut by
Lakshmana by the use of four arrows.
7510.As soon as he cut them Kumbhakarna , took an arrow with very lustrous face ,
Which had for a
long time controlled and punished the Devas , which had thousand forms,
Which was given
to him by Lord Brahma and made God live in to that arrow .
And sent it saying ,”If you are a very strong one , try to prevent this .”
7511.Lakshmana ,
the younger brother of Rama noticing that due to,
The power of that arrow
, all the direction that could
be seen was burning ,
Took a matchless
divine arrow and cut it
off and that ,
Arrow with one
thousand forms was destroyed.
7512. That cruel
one then sent twelve cruel and
speedy arrows to pierce Hanuman,
And two evil
arrows that would fly and hurt the young lad
Lakshmana,
And also
sent within a second hundred and fifty arrows ,
So that all the
directions and sky is
completely hidden.
7513. Lakshmana destroyed all those arrows the
directions and the sky ,
By an arrow which had
the power do it and went on destroying the cruel elephants
,
Horses and Yalis
which pulled the chariots in huge crowds ,
And also completely damaged the chariot of Kumbhakarna.
7514.Just
like that which was surrounding and hiding the sun with its red rays,
The chariot
of Kumbhakarna was destroyed , the
drivers of those chariots were destroyed,
And that huge
bow of Kumbhakarna which was like the
rainbow ,
Appearing amidst
the clouds which
still have water was also cut.
7515. The devas
were greatly surprised
seeing war fought by Lakshmana ,
Thinking “Did he
kill the horses
with cropped manes tied to the
chariot,
And also
crowd of the cruel lions by sending arrows , or by
magical chants ,
Or did he kill
them all by cursing them.”
7516. Kumbhakarna
who had lost his chariot as well
as his bow ,
Became angry like a rising sea ,
thinking that he would drink the soul,
Of Lakshmana who opposed
him , took in his hand the trident ,
Which had three
branches possibly meant for
winning over ,
The three worlds
and which was like the cruel
God of death.
7517. That
Kumbhakarna who had greatly
ebbing anger jumped on earth
,
Making the earth
shatter in to two and like
ferocious rising sea.
Lakshmana considering
that Kumbhakarna was standing on
earth,
And thinking
unnecessary bad name would
come to him,
Got down from the
shoulder of Hanuman and started ,
To fight with
Kumbhakarna standing on earth.
7518. When
Lakshmana started fighting with Kumbhakarna standing on earth,
Ravana sent an army which had double the strength of the earlier army
,
To help his
younger brother and that
army roaring like a sea,
Went around
Lakshmana the lion born to Sumithra
and created huge sound,
7519.Due to the running
away of Devas who were scared
and confused,
All people tottered and
Lakshmana went quickly to
control the army that has come ,
By fighting with them without mercy
and entered the black sea
of that huge pretty army.
7520-7521. Through the mountain like barrage
built with
The black heads of
Rakshasas who had red hair,
And who had eyes
like the newly opened
red Palasa flowers , the
river of blood,
Started flowing,
which resembled the molten copper flowing
in between raging fire,
And with hands of
elephants, legs of horses , the
wheels of chariots working like
wind,
The heads of Rakshasas
, the blood flowing out of
their cut limbs ,
Stagnating and
whirling in all places could
not cross ,
The two big shores
built by large number of corpses.
7522.Due to the powerful arrows of Lakshmana chased
and cut the weapons like,
The victorious sword
. iron pestle . mace , spears
, arrows , axes ,Vajrayudha and other weapons,
Large number of pieces
of cut weapons , hit other
weapons and they also broke.
7523.The powerful arrows sent by Lakshmana cut in to pieces , ornaments like ,
Ear globes, crowns
, pearl garlands , gem
garlands , anklets , bangles and armlets ,
And several others
, they all resembled the lustrous
solar system and were shining in
the sky.
7524.Large number
of ghosts swam in the blood and
collected .
The big silver Umbrellas
, White Cowries , long flags ,
The bow which
sends the arrow , shield , peacock umbrellas ,
And dense
arrows that were
floating in all the rivers of
blood, and brought them to shore.
7525.When such a cruel battle was in progress there , Kumbhakarna
,
A Rakshasa with white teeth went to another place
,
And fought a cruel battle with Sugreeva the son of Sun God,
The devas crowded
there thinking that it is worth seeing.
7526. Sugreeva the
son of Sun God with dense rays ,
with fire sparks coming out of his eyes,
And with mouth from which
smoke was coming out threw the
mountain,
From the sky saying
“The huge and different shoulders
are already broken.”
7527,The cruel elephant
which was like a red mountain ,
Which came from
that mountain and reached the
earth ,
And a cruel big elephant in the Rakshasa army
started fighting with each
other,
What other mountain is there which cannot
be taken by Sugreeva .
7528. And the pythons that came out of
the big mountain thrown by
Sugrreva,
Bit the
Rakshasa soldiers and the elephants so that they lost
their strength ,
And Kumbhakarna with his matchless hands caught that mountain ,
And the very cruel
Asuras praised him for that.
7529.That Kumbhakarna of limitless strength
caught that mountain by one hand,
And said, “Is this the mountain thrown by you ?’Powdered
it like ash ,
And said “go” and
threw it out and seeing that great
strength, Devas were scared.
7530.As soon as Sugreeva was thinking that he would go in search ,
Of another big mountain , That Kumbhakarna who does never
feel tired,
Said “Kill” and
threw that trident , which never
misses ,
Its aim like the curse
of those of faultless
penance .
7531.Those who saw coming of that trident wailed that “Sugreeva is dead, is dead”,
And that trident that was coming in the sky was caught
by Hanuman ,
Who broke and destroyed it as if to tell others , that Hanuman,
The follower of Dharma
would not allow this act to
happen.
7532. The sound which was heard when Hanuman broke the trident
,
Was similar to the sound of Rama the incarnation of of Lord Vishnu ,
Broke the bow of
Lord Shiva , who is wise mad God
,
Attracted by the
pretty breasts of Sita, in the town of
Mithila.
7533.That Rakshasa Kumbhakarna seeing the state of Hanuman
said,
“To think and tell . the strength of your hand is great and you
are alone,
In all the
countries to perform difficult jobs.
Which can be ,
Compared to
your great strength and prowess?”
7534.”If you continue to do the fight that
we have stopped ,
In the middle , I
would do as per your words
“ and as soon as,
Kumbhakarna told
this Hanuman told “ After telling you earlier,
I would not fight with you , breaking my words is not proper” and went away.
7535. When the
trident weapon was destroyed , though
Kumbhakarna ,
Did not get any other weapon , he did not
go away from there,
And at that time , Sugreeva , the son of Sun God jumped before Kumbhakarna ,
Using his very strong fists
, hit Kumbhakarna.
7536.That Rakshasa
whose eyes were red like molten copper said to him,
“Your masculinity
is great but from now
your pride would be destroyed,”
And caught
Sugreeva with his hands in a manner
that he cannot escape .
7537When Sugreeva
caught hold of Kumbhakarna , they
rotated together ,
And at that time
even Devas were not able to identify
both of them,
And they started a
very great fight and by the
speed of that fight ,
Thunders got burnt
and the smoke due to that covered all sides ,
Blood started flowing put of the mouth of both of them ,
But both of them never
became tired.
7538. Then both of
them pressed each other and again and
again,
Fought systematically
and Kumbhakarna by his great
strength ,
Using his long and strong hands crushed
Sugreeva ,
And due to that
Sugreeva lost his conscience
7539. That king of Rakshasas thought “if I carry him away ,
Then this war would come to an end as the great army,
Without a king a leader
would split and so there is no ,
Better thing to
do and started carrying Sugreeva to his city.
7540. When the falcon rose in the sky carrying a bird which was cooing ,
The monkeys who
were like the babies of that bird started
,
Beating themselves
by their hands with densely formed fingers ,
Let out heavy breath
and started wailing
and,
Rakshasas
started shouting with great
joy.
7541. The Devas started
shivering and the monkey
chieftains , who had small eyes,
Started to have a burning heart , looked
as if they were all dead ,
And due to their great love towards their king
,
Sweated all over
their body and became greatly
depressed.
7542.That Kumbhakarna who had very great anger which leads
to worry,
Who carried away
Sugreeva , became like
Rahu who never has sorrow ,
And Sugreeva the son of Sun God looked
vane like,
The moon that
was swallowed by that Rahu.
7543. That Sugreeva who was the son of Sun God who gives
light,
To all directions
due to his form being hidden
by Kumbhakarna,
Who was of the colour of black cloud some times
,
Was of dim colour and some times bright , like the moon
,depending ,
On whether that
cloud hides him or not
.
7544.,That Hanuman who had the feet which crossed the black sea ,
Recollecting his
words “That I would not fight with you
“ ,
Which he told ,
did not try to oppose Kumbhakarna
,
Ans went on rubbing his hands in which
God of death lives ,
And followed
that Rakshasa Kumbhakarna.
7545.The monkeys ran to
Rama and told him that
Kumbhakarna ,
Has tied Sugreeva
the son of Sun God and taken him away ,
And asked him, “who is our leader now?” and created great furrore
,
And fell at the
feet of Rama who had one thousand
names.
7546.That Rama who had a black body like cloud
, became one with eyes,
Which were more burning than fire and
reached the entrance of the big Lanka,
Taking with him Bow and arrows that could burn , within a very short time.
7547.Thinking that it would be dangerous if my
very great Sugreeva ,
Is taken as if my soul is taken in to
the unapproachable great city of
Lanka
With flags ,
Rama decided to send huge arrows as if it was raining ,
And completely
block the entrance of the city including the sky.
7548.Due the arrows of Rama which filled y up the entire sky , all directions were hidden,’
The huge number
of hot rays of the very lustrous Sun did
not reach the earth,
No being was able
to travel through the sky and the
moving black clouds were removed from
the top.
7549. The angry Kumbhakarna who was travelling through the sky with very great speed ,
Reached the huge wall that was made
by several crowds
of arrows ,
Thought about it and decided that it would not be possible to remove them and looked back.
7550.He saw the
face , the mouth , the eye, the
hand and the leg ,
Which were like
fully open lotus flowers of a lotus flower pond ,
Of huge matchless
black cloud which was holding a
golden bow,
And which was
Lord Rama with a very pretty body.
7551.The folded
mouth of Kumbhakarna let out
large amount of smoke,
And the lips
were twitching with different frequencies , the eye brow ,
Raised as a mark of anger
, the eyes let out fire sparks
,
The sky broke due to his loud shouting and the hills also broke likewise.
7552.”You have come here to attack me thinking that I am Kabandha,
Whose mouth was in
his belly and The strength less Vali who was a monkey
Who ate Flowers
and you have come to protect the
sweet life of this Sugreeva , let us
see.”
7553.”Oh Rama who is holding a bow with an arrow, I did
not get angry at your brother ,
I did not get
angry at his elephant lke
steed Hanuman and , I did not get angry,
At Sugreeva the younger brother of Vali who chased me ,
And all this because
winning over any of them would not get me fame.”
7554”.I roamed searching for you and your army ran away beyond directions,
Your brother with
great pain walked slanting
, Hanuman ran away,
Losing all his
strength and carrying this
Sugreeva I reached here easily.”
7555. “You have come here to save this Sugreeva and you have been,
Given to me by my
luck and I would do all the valorous war .
That I have done
earlier and cure the wound of love from my brother’s mind.”
7556.’Oh expert in doing war with cruel weapons ,
If in front of the Devas
you unchain the mentally
upset Sugreeva ,
By your powerful bow, then Sita
can also be released from
prison “ said Kumbhakarna.
7557,AS soon as Kumbhakarna told this Rama
smiled , “I would get defeated by you,
If I do not cut off your mountain like shoulders
which carried away,
My sweet friend
Sugreeva and then I
would never hold a bow”Said Rama on
oath.
7558Then When Rama
attempting to get released the mountain like Sugreeva ,
Without any problem
, he took two lustrous arrows
from the quiver , near his head,
Which were like the tip of the sword on the
high and wide forehead of Khumbakarna .
7559, Due to the
ebbing and flowing blood due to
Kumbhakarna being hit by arrows,
All places looked
like the red sky and Kumbhakarna stood with
two long arrows on his forehead,
And he looked like
the red sky just before the
dawn.
7560.That blood
flowing from his forehead jumped like a
stream from the mountain,
And made completely wet the face of Sugreeva who was in trance and like ,
One getting up from sweet sleep , he
regained consciousness and at
that time,
That Kumbhakarna
who was very strong and never gets defeated fell in to a faint.
7561.He realized by signs that the shining arrows on the forehead of Kumbhakarna,
Were the arrows
of victorious Rama and seeing all
around he saw Rama,
Who was the ultimate
destination of all beings on earth ,
and saluted and praised him.
7562.Sugreeva saw
Lord Rama and seeing him
, with no decrease to his self
respect ,
And with great shyness
with his teeth he cut off the nose
and ears,
Of Kumbhakarna
right from his roots and went and joined his people.
7563.All the monkeys raised joyful sound
seeing the return of Sugreeva ,
Vedas also
greeted him , the Deva maidens as well his relations,
Burst in to sound of joy
, the fish filled ocean as well as oceans ,
Also made joyous
sounds and along with Devas the God of dharma also shouted in joy.
7564. That Sugreeva who escaped from the cruel hands of
the very strong Kumbhakarna,
Who was short
tempered , became extremely happy and
Rama ,
Who was able to see him a
complete form got rid of his sorrow
and became happy,
Thinking that
lady Janaki has got out of the very cruel prison of Lanka.
7565.With huge
flow of blood due to the breaking of his forehead due to Rama ‘s arrows,
Kumbhakarna had fainted
and seeing that proper opportunity
, Sugreeva,
Bit his nose and ears and along with that reached his place .
Had it not been like that could he have done this great feat?
7566. That
Kumbhakarna to whom the blood
was the blanket , at the time,
When his nose and ears were removed , woke up his state of faint ,
And realized the truth
that Sugreeva the chief of monkeys
has escaped ,
From his clutches
and also the fact that his ears and nose had gone away from him.
7567.That Kumbhakarna who had body on which river of blood was flowing looked,
Like a huge mountain made of red stone which was made wet by the flow
of monsoon rain.,
Which makes it cool
, looked as if streams were
flowing on him with hot wind.
7569.Due to his elder
brother who had no quality of searching thought ,
Heard the words of
the thoughtless Soorpanakha , in the
war that ensued,
The nose as well
as the ears of Kumbhakarna were destroyed
and ,
Due to that even
his eyes which were round gave rise to flow of blood.
7569.Kumbhakarna
who thought that whatever that happened to him was shameful,
Saw the Devas who were
abusing him , he would see his own nose
,
He would think of the earlier wars when he became victorious and then this war and see
the earth.
7570. He thought ,
“even before I see my own face , it is
better that I see face of Rama ,”
He took a very lustrous shield , which had a part of his face ,
And took a matchless
sword that could eat
every body in the war.
7571.That Kumbhakarna
who had the form of Northern Meru
mountain,
Which is circled by the Sun god woth thousands of rays ,
Threw that
shield after shaking
and made fall,
All the stars
in the entire sky.”
7572.The extra
wind that blew from the face of the shield ,
Which was thrown
by Kumbhakarna made the very scared ,
Monkey crowd rush towards all directions and due
,
To the huge sound generated by them , even the ocean became a hill.
7573. Due to Kumbhakarna operating
the shield with great speed ,
Due to his stamping with his leg and due to his swinging of
his lustrous spear,
Which was
like the God of death , like the ocean which splits ,
Due to very powerful wind
, unable to act ,
That huge army
with tails lost their position
and were destroyed.
7574.All those who
opposed Kumbhakarna in
that battle field,
Were scared by
weapons , were cut by them that
resulted ,
In the flow of a
very huge river of blood and
resulted in the earth,
And head of Adhi Sesha who supports it became
slushy.
7575.Jambhavan
went and told Rama that “From now on,
A tense moment like
this would not happen and
if you do not ,
Stop him now ,
you would cause destruction of monkey
army ,
And would have helped in the power of Rakshasa army ,
And so please
fight with him “and enthused Rama to fight.
7576.That Rama who had
the qualities of the leader , seeing ,
The destruction of monkey army and the
stable victory of Kumbhakarna,
With a determined mind decided “I would make God of death,
To stand before him
“ And walked towards Kumbhakarna.
7577.Then he
sent thirteen thunder like arrows which had
matchless speed,
Aimed at Kumbhakarna
and Kumbhakarna who had minutely excellent ,
Knowledge of
war using his powerful arrows .
Made them fall like
the wings that are shed by eagles.
7578. Rama the king of all males then continuously sent cruel
sharp arrows ,
Which were
innumerable like the rays
of the hot sun , with great
strength ,
And when they were
also broken by the wave of the
shield of Kumbhakarna
7579.That Rama with a red lotus eye showing a small matchless smile ,
Again sent
another sharp arrow and that cut off
his lustrous sword.
Which was cutting away all his enemies like an eagle and all
the Devas cheered.
7580. That Kumbhakarna who was breathing heavily like the fire at deluge ,
Making others doubt whether that sword was destroyed
or not ,
Speedily took hold of another strong sword
and telling,
“I have killed all, killed all” , he came and stood before
Rama.
7581.That Rama who
had masculine culture cut off
that big sword also,
Made fall his pretty
shield and broke open
the good long armour he was
wearing,
And sent towards him several lightning like arrows and several cruel scary arrows.
7582.When such bad things were happening , the huge army sent by
,
The ten headed
one which had earlier made Indra
and his relatives run away ,
And also put the
oceans in to great confusion , came to them from far off.
7583.Rama who was comparison less in the
job of archery thinking,
That it is the proper time to destroy that Kumbhakarna
,
And when he stood
before him and to Kumbhakarna ,
To whom bad fate
was coming continuously
something good came.
7584.Horses , Chariots
, foot soldiers , Elephants with
flowing rut water ,
And all parts of the army came very near tio Kumbhakarna, surrounded
him
And started
fighting and that dancer of
illusion Rama called then “come with
great speed.”
7585.The fourteen crore
strong ocean of the army along
with Masked elephants,
With cruel flow of the rut , horses , chariots with
big wheels,
Huge and powerful foot soldiers came and joined and Rama
,
Who as Vishnu
would survive the deluge , went
opposite them and stopped them, they say.
7586. Kumbhakarna
appeared there holding in his hands ,
A trident which can destroy
all the three worlds ,
Which had the war like form having three
leaves ,
Which were
the life span , God of death and endless
evil .
7587.The devas
saw in the battle field the
headless bodies ,
Which were
without any movement acting like
the pieces of wood ,
And which were heaped
like mountains ,
They saw the
bodies of warriors without hands anf their blood stains,
Heads lying there
as if they were eating the earth
but ,
They could not see
any one who were roaming with soul.
7588. They also were
not able to see any weapons
which have ,
Not broken and
made the battle field in to a
hill ,
Which had not been carried away by
the flowing stream of blood,
Which had nor broken in several places and
have filled up al places ,
Which were not in pieces, which had not given out fire
sparks ,
Which had not become in to dust and which were not in hundred pieces.
7589.Due to those arrows which pierced the
broad heads of mountain like elephants
with flowing rut,
Hurting them ,
without oobeying their trainers they ran
and due to the blood ,
That flowed stagnating the entire earth , their intestines came out ,
And they were
affected by disease of death and they also lost their tusks ,
And also were cut
in to pieces and no one was able to see
any of them walk alive.
7590.Those chariots
tied with gems that make sound , lost their luster,
Had their flags got destroyed , had many horses split
by lustrous sharp arrows,
Had their axle
and machines broken and in
places had got drowned ,
In the blood in
all places and no one was
able to see a chariot running
properly.
7591. The horses
with shining colour became very
weak , did not have a bent neck,
Had left their
loud neighing , had their legs cut and were pushed in to the rivers ,
Of hot blood with
the corpses of cruel
elephants which were not scared .
As their
banks and were being pushed from
whirlpool to whirlpool,
And no one could see any
live horse walking in the battle field.
7592, What is the need
for telling separately the effect of arrows
that were sent
By that Rama who was the lord of all the Vedas ?The devas
were able to see,
The Rakshasas who
were close to them only in the
very desired heaven ,
But they did not see alive those mountain like Rakshasas
in the cruel battle field
,
And there they
were able to see only huge crowd of Rakshasa
ladies ,
Who were busy in
searching for the bodies of their husbands.
7593.Just like the dew not being seen
when the sun comes out ,
That huge
Rakshasas army was
completely destroyed and the Devas,
Became happy thinking
that the asuras were
annihilated and thought,
That the Kumbhakarna
who cannot be defeated by any
one would soon die,
And the Rakshasas
got worried thinking that
Kumbhakarna has become alone,
And that
matchless leader Rama due to pity that Kumbhakarna has become alone ,
Looked at his
face and started telling him the following.
7594.”You have lost
the huge army that came assist you greatly with weapons,
You are standing there all alone and since you are born with
Vibheeshana ,
Who never swerves
from justice an Dharma , I would
leave with your life.
Would you like to return to Lanka now or
otherwise would you ,
Prefer to fight and die
,.Please think and tell me what path suits you.”
7595. “ The effect of the bad deeds
that you have done earlier have not
gone ,
And that is why without coming when I called you through Vibheeshana,
You are now
standing under control of death and
since you did not come,
When I called, you
have lost your life as well as
great wealth and after a great sleep,
You are standing prepared to die
and so tell me what you think in your mind.”
7596.Having heard
that Kumbhakarna said ,”let whatever you have told me
remain,
I do not want to
remain with this face which is
similar to my sister
,
Who stays away from us
and whose long ears and
nose were lost because,
Of you , who are
great who protects his own respectability , who never ,
Goes away from valour
and victory and who is ,
The storehouse of
the Dharma and greatness of your clan.”
7597, “Oh lord
who never gets destroyed , due
to us the Devas lost their greatness ,
And seeing
that , I tried to stop Ravana from
giving sorrow to Sita,
Who is the wife of some one else and
since this was not
accepted ,
I lost the the
right to talk to the king in front of
suitable people ,
And I am sad about it and I cannot return back to the
city without ears and nose .”
7598.”I came
here for the war , to
cut your shoulders and head
by my sword and kill you ,
So that my elder
brother becomes happy and present him with
the beauty of Sita,
But I am holding my
head by my bloodied red hands making the Devas laugh
,
And am filling up my eyes with tears and blood and like
my sister ,
I am not supposed
to wail and go before my brother and fall at his feet.”
7599.”Though you
are the matchless lord to the matchless three worlds,
You , the warrior
have the mental capacity
to examine the bad name of ,
Others and understand it
and how is it that you are not thinking of the duty of valorous
warriors?,
If I in the battle field with my huge sword , cut you all in to pieces ,
Cut off your head, Would it be proper? and So you have
not told something proper.”
7600-7601.. After telling like this, Kumbhakarna shifted his long trident which was in his,
Right hand to the
left hand and with right hand he uprooted a huge mountain near by .
And making fire sparks
coming out of it in the sky , he
threw it aimed at Rama ‘s head ,
Telling it ‘Be
victorious” and when it almost
touched Rama , he powdered it ,
Like sacred ash which is applied by Lord
Shiva , who is difficult to understand
and ,
Even before that Rama thought of fighting , with a speed of thought ,
Transferred the very long trident from one hand to hand and by that time,
Rama went on shooting
series of arrows at Kumbhakarna
and cut off that spear.
7602. The arrows that were sent with great
speed from the bent bow of Lord Rama,
Were capable of drying the waters of oceans with tide , capable of burning even thunder,
Were capable of piercing Meru mountain and reach the other side of sky ,
And were capable
of giving desired results
without error ,
But failed to break the armour given by Lord Shiva to Kumbhakarnna.
7603. That Rama
with lotus like eyes noticed that his arrows were hitting the armour,
Of Kumbhakarna but were not able to pierce it and realized that it was Lord Shiva’s armour,
And after thinking about it , he
used a killer arrow of Lord
Shiva and destroyed that armour
.
And that Shiva’s armour
broke down and fell on the earth like Sun going round Meru
mountain.
7604.When that
armour which used to spread hot light broke and fell down,
Kumbhakarna with
fire sparks coming out of the eye , made great
sound ,
By patting his
shoulders took hold of a very strong long rod
with iron tip ,
Which was
matchless , making people believe he would grind ,
The entire monkey army in to a paste , he started
again and again grinding on the
earth.
7605.AS for the arrows of Rama , those
which were flying on the sky
were thousand,
Those hitting the enemy was thousand , those
which broke the
wide pretty chest were thousand,
Those which fly and wander were thousand , those which
entered the enemies body ,
But did dit come out were thousand , those which
emerge from Rama’s bow were thousand,
And though they were sharp arrows , they were
making sound and roaming like a kite.
7606.Thinking that if he has the iron rod with him, it would not be possible ,
For the monkey army to survive , that Rama who was like a black cloud,
Sent ten cruel arrows together in one shot to destroy
that iron rod ,
And due to
that the iron rod broke in to pieces
and because of that,
That Rakshasa who was wearing black armlet
became angry ,
And took a sword and a shield which shined like
the matchless Sun.
7607.AS soon he
took the sword , the Monkey
warriors got confused ,
And started
running away by all paths and
devas put their head down in shame.
And when the helpers told that , again the robbing of souls has started
, that king Rama,
Took a an unmatchable
arrow and said to it “ cut his mountain like shoulders
“ and sent it.
And the
Devas greeted him.
7608. The evil
karma of Kumbakarna became sad
thinking that the hand ,
Which was helping it would be cut and the good karma shouted with joy,
And that right hand of Kumbhakarna which was like the rising black sea,
At the end of the eons
, was cut like the moon affected
by Rahu and,
Was cut along with the sword it was holding and because
of that ,
The Rakshasas became greatly upset telling” the protection for Ravana ,
As well as the city of Lanka has came
to an end”
7609.Then Kumbhakarna lifted the cut right hand along
with the well grown,
Pretty shoulders
by his left hand , and
making great sound ,
And showing his teeth ran round and started hiting and
due to that ,
The clan of monkeys fell dead making one think , That “are there ,
Any valorous persons
other than those who begged and received valour from this great Rakshasa.”
7610.The entire world got scared to see that in spite of the Generous Rama
guarding them,
This entire army
of monkeys were being stolen by the God
of death,
Three times more than earlier and thought that entire
army of monkeys,
Would be destroyed within
this day and were greatly scared
,
To see the one
hand holding another hand which was massacring monkeys.
7611. With the enemy
sea of monkeys running away
great scared ,
And seeing the river of blood that was flowing from his arm was carrying
away,
The heap of the
corpses of monkeys which touched the sky
, making the Devas,
Of the sky running away confused and with Lanka
, its mountains and birds ,
Gettind separated
, confused and going away by the
speed of the river of blood ,
With the crows of clouds running away , that Kumbhakarna,
Started running
towards Rama , who was like a lion
cub.
7612.Then the Devas requested and prayed Rama,
“Please cut off the other hand also,”,
And the very victorious
Rama, using his killer arrows cut
off
The other hand and
put it in the sea like another bridge
So that the life
of Kumbhakarna who has already lost his right hand would get spoiled,
And to remove the
doubt and fear in the mind of God of
death , who had not come before the Asuras.
7613.That hand of his
which had fallen in the ocean
with pretty bangles ,
Looking like a
serpent round that arm and the
shoulders of Kumbhakarna.,
Decorated by
diamond ornaments was in no way inferior to the Mandhara mountain,
Which was attached with moon and which made nectar
appear ,
In the ocean of milk with great tides during those days when it was churning .
7614.The arrow of Rama
was like Garuda because , it
took the hand to the sea,
Which had the same colour , it had lustrous
wings with golden colour and went with great speed ,
And it executed
the orders of Rama and the tall shoulders ,
Of Kumbhakarna
was resembling the
Mandhara mountain.
7615.Kumbhakarna making a very huge sound resembling the sound produced,
By Lord Trivikrama who bore a hole in the Meru mountain , being encircled by the sun,
Kept a huge drum and holding a huge stick beating the drum forcefully ,
And he churned
the ocean of monkey army so that their skin, flesh and bones,
Joined together
in to a paste form.
7616.That Asura
appeared as if the earth, wind,
fire , water and sky took ,
A single form that cannot be killed and he
was like the God of death,
Who was angry and who took away souls and
who was like a king,
To a war without
sense of fear , who was the
greatest among those who had pride ,
And Rama that
expert in arrows cut off his right leg
by another cruel arrow.
7617.With his
white teeth like row of stars , with
his corner teeth like ,
The crescent of
the moon and coming like the dusk with
its sky,
Resembling the
red colour of the river of blood ., with a fully open mouth ,
And with making a hole in the earth and the sea water spreading due to that,
He came again to the war limping with one step on the earth.
7618 With only one leg
, staring at the sky , he was ,
taking monkeys by curving his
toungue ,
And eating them ,
making people tell that he is a horrible cyclone and,
He was continuing
his job of killing and then
Rama who was like a male lion,
With an arrow which had fire at its tips , making the burden of earth less ,
With Vedas as well as
god of Dharma dancing , Cut off his other leg also.
7619.Thus both his hands as well as both his legs were cut off
and his body,
Which was like a mountain was pierced
by two hundred thousand arrows
which went up to his back.
The fire in his already red eyes doubled
and his great anger ,
Increased like the thunder heard in the earth from the sky.
7620.That Kumbhakarna who had lost both his hands and
legs ,with great cruel anger ,
From the floor using his huge mouth , bit ,
broke and drew mountain ,
Which were at two miles distance and using the air that was
generated in him,
Blew them in all
directions and the monkeys died like
beings hit by thunder.
7621.That Kumbhakarna
who had red eyes due to anger which
appeared ,
To have been made of fire , with the long
flames of fire generated by it,
Burnt all directions
and curling his toungue a
mountain where bamboos grow,
Threw it in the battle field with the sound of ghosts by his cave like mouth ,
And seeing that grealy generous Rama became benumbed due to surprise.
7622.Kumbhakarna
realizing that ,”For the great
efficiency of the battle with bow,
Of Rama even one thousand Ravanas
would not be equal .Alas, I have lost,
My hands and legs
and there does not seem to have any more possibility
of help,
Due to illness called desire Ravana has come to an end and he who lived,
Without any limit of ife span , now would not continue to live”
And with those thoughts he
became extremely saddened in the mind.
7623. The fresh blood that was oozing out spread
in all directions ,
Like a river with
tide and was taking away with
it chariots with machines ,
Elephants ,
horses and warriors
and seeing this That Kumbhakarna
,
Who was like a valorous elephant and the golden mountain of Meru with head,
Looked at
Rama with the pretty shoulders who was standing before him and told.
7624.”Oh Rama who was
born in clan of Sibi who for the
sake of protecting a dove,
Which sought his protection kept himself in the balance and who rode an elephant in rut,
Armed with the sword, you too have the duty of love and so please put an end,
To the bad karma
due to having relations with us and
Protect the soul of Vibheeshana, This
is my last wish.”
7625.”Oh primeval lord
who has taken the form of a king
and is being ,
Praised by the Vedas ,, my brother who only knows the laws of Dharma ,
Which came according to
the laws of justice and not that
which came to him from our clan,
Has reached you
for protection and I am again ,
Requesting you to
consider him as a thing to be protected and save him.”
7626.”Oh Lord who
never swerves from path of justice ,
That Rakshasa with a spear,
Who wants to win over
you is trying to completely destroy this Vibheeshana ,
And he who has
evil and deceit in his mind, if a
chance occurs ,
Would kill this
Vibheeshana without feeling the affection of a brother. Please remember
this.”
7627. “Oh
greatest among men, That evil
Ravana would not spare Vibheeshana,
Thinking that he
is his younger brother and if he sees
him , then he would kill him,
And show no mercy because
of that request your brother and Hanuman to be always ,
Him so that they can protect him . This is my humble request.”
7628.”The devas and sages when they see my face , would see it as a face without nose ,
So using your arrow cut my neck and remove it to the black
wide ,sea , so that,
They cannot see my face .This is also another of my requests.” Said Kumbhakarna.
7629 Rama thinking that
Kumbhakarna has asked this as a
boon ,
And not doing
it is not proper , took one arrow , kept it,
On the long
strings of his great bow and cut the
head of Kumbhakarna,
And using a strong arrow of wind he made it fall in the
centre of the black sea.
7630.In the wide
ocean of black colour , after
pushing its folding tides ,
And not allowing to go to the west , east , south and north ,
That mountain like
head which was emitting smoke from
both its eyes ,
Due to water
entering in to it through the
nose was drowned in water.
7631. The devas danced
, the Deva maidens sang nectar
like songs,
The sages and
Brahmins lost their fear , the chiefs
of monkey army,
Met Rama and surrounded him and the killer Rakshasas ,
Ran to Ravana to
inform him about
this news.
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