12.Pini Veetu padalam
Chapter on getting rid of the tie .
(Hanuman who could have easily got rid of the ties
submitted to it as he wanted to talk to Ravana and also due to his respect for
Lord Brahma. Indrajit takes him in front of Ravana who enquires with Hanuman , about himself. He tells that he is emissary of Angadha and later says he is the emissary of Sugreeva. When asked
Hanuman informs Ravana, about Rama. His
killing of Vali and message from Sugreeva to immediately release Sita. Infuriated Ravana orders for
killing of Hanuman but under the advice of Vibheeshana decides to disfigure him
by burning his tail and sending him back,. The asuras tie him
well and drag him through all the streets of the city and at last lit fire to
his tail. When lady Sita hears about
this, she prays Lord fire to become cool , which he obeys. Hanuman escapes from
the tie and sets fire to city of Lanka.
IN Valmiki
Ramayana Ravana does not ask questions to Hanuman and on his behalf,
Prahastha his chief minister asks the question,”
5805. Several
Asuras came to the place
shouting “ Shoot an arrow at this monkey,
Cut him with a sword
, Pierce him with a spear , Split him with an axe ,
Take out his intestines , Cut him in to several
pieces , rub him on the earth,
Eat his flesh
and If this escapes from
here , we will lose our lives.”
5806. Ladies with kajal applied big eyes
and males getting angry,
Just like a serpent with a hood “Should we
keep this silly monkey ,
Alive for so much time
“ and surrounded Hanuman from all sides,
And some Asuras
were trying to kill Hanuman.
5807.”Does this diamond like body of this monkey merit,
To be destroyed
using poison coated weapons?
Push him in the
folding ocean and press on his head firmly.
If you are not
able to do that , put him in fire and kill him”, They said.
5808. Some others told
, “ Ask him to bring back My
father ,
My younger brother
and elder brother “ And stopped
them,
And many said,
“He has come here as per the order ,
Of the Devas of heaven “ and felt that they would not be able to kill him.
5809.”We have never been separated from our soul like
husbands ,
Who were pretty and were as strong
as the mountain ,
But today they
have gone , Would we not wish for them
and sorrow?
We would sit on his head as seat and would not leave
,
Unless he gives
back our Mangalya”, said many crying Asura
ladies.
5810. The huge
sound made by Asuras
belonging to the victorious city
Of Lanka who had
come to see Hanuman being taken away,
Was heard by
Asura ladies , the neck of whose husbands have been cut,
Who had a face
wearing ear globes and were
thirsting for their husbands,
And they became very happy
and that sound spread all over the world.
5811.Hanuman went along with them with
happiness seeing ,
The warriors
holding sharp fire like cruel weapons
, as well as,
The houses of the
city which were broken to dust ,
Which resembled mountains broken by thunder
Due to his throwing
the chariots and horses on them.
5812. Though they saw
that the very strong shoulders
of Hanuman,
Which were like an old tree surrounded by ants suffering
,
Due to being tied
by the serpent rope , due to fear
,
The innocent
Rakshasis pretended having not
seen it ,
And started
running away, feeling that the
monkey would come there too,
And several asuras
whose lips had come up due
to, the shivering ,
Of their teeth
were wondering , what other
great harm the monkey would do?
5813.Many asuras
were scared hearing the tumult in the city and kept quiet,
Some others were relating the valorous deeds of that monkey in that war,
And some others
whenever they saw Hanuman , shivered due to fear,
And started
running helter-skelter
outside the town.
5814.Some said “
this tie with the serpent which burns and hurts
,
Seems to be like a tie
with a flower garland to this monkey
as his face is full of luster,
And so without wasting much time after thinking about getting good results ,
Do all that needs to be done .It is not proper to take him now before the king.”
5815. “The simplicity
of this monkey must have made that lustrous snake ,
Worn out and
so the thought of this monkey in
his mind could be different ,”
Thinking like this
some asuras looked at
Hanuman and entreated with him,
“Look at us with joyful thought and do not become angry
with us” and then they saluted him,
5816.Then fifty thousand KInkaras who had
endless strength ,
And were greatly valorous
assembled on one side of Hanuman,
And catching hold of the serpent rope they
started ,
Draging away Hanuman
who was wearing heroic anklets.
5817.” Did the God of death, for
destroying the pride of those
Asuras ,
Who were very strong
, hid his form which cannot be destroyed ,
Took the form of a monkey
and started destroying us” said
many Asuras.
5818. Many Asura
ladies who were wearing many rows
of bangles ,
Crowding in
the open courtyards of mansions , on the top ,
Of many
houses of Gold , on
window sills and in places ,
Where huge drums were
being played which gave rise to
huge sound.
5819.That God
Shiva holding the matchless
weapon of axe ,
And living on Kailasa
mountain , due to the greatness of Sita,
Who had the looks of a peacock , has possibly taken the form of monkey,
With sharp teeth
and entered in to this pretty city,
Surrounded by
compound walls , “ some Asuras were saying.
5820.The Deva
ladies , the creeper like Vidhyadhara ladies with long hair,
The Naga ladies
whose voice was sweeter than Yaazh music
, The sidha ladies,
Who are sweeter than Sugar cane and also the Yaksha ladies ,
Making very
great sound assembled
in all places.
5821.Some Asuras thought that . “Lord Vishnu who sleeps on the
ocean of milk,
And holds a big wheel
and Lord Brahma who wearing a flower
garland ,
And created the world, due to enmity with Asuras,
must have ,
Changed their form and after becoming one body and entered this city.”
5822.All those who
were not Rakshasas or Rakshasis , did not hide ,
Their rain like tears and did they shed tears seeing
the suffering ,
Of Sita with scented hairs or was it due to mercy seeing,
The suffering of Hanuman
or due to the simplicity of
Dharma.
5823.That Hanuman
who did masculine duties did not want ,
To either return back or win a victory over them all,
But wanted to proceed
and meet the king of
Lanka,
And so thinking like this went along with them.
5824,He thought
“Due to the mercy of my father, the wind God ,
Due to the blessed
deed of meditating on the divine
feet of Rama,
And also due to boons given by Sita and other
Devas,
I can easily shake off this cruel arrow but ,
It is better for me to remain with a tired mind,.
5825.Hanuman thought
“ If I reached Ravana , the Asura with curved teeth ,
And Inform him along
the council of senior advisers
, about,
The likely happenings of future as per the order of Rama,
Possibly Ravana may lose
his determination of the mind,
And may give back
Sita belonging to the Mithila country to
me.”
5826.”Otherwise I
would be able know the efficiency of people who are with him,
And also know about their deeper intentions
and also when I who am the emissary of the king,
Regarded as his
face , inform Ravana as to what Rama told me
,
Then from the
words that he utters , I can know
about his strength and mentality.”
5827. “When I inform Ravana about
the destruction of Vali ,
The danger that happened to Maramara trees , The
huge ,
Measureless
strength of the monkey army , and
about ,
The strength of Sugreeva
It would stick firmly,
To the mind of Ravana
of blue colour “, he thought.
5828.”And so
,My meeting Ravana
and making him
understand,
The power and
justice of Rama and
by chance ,
If he did not agree
, killing more than half
the army ,
That is
existing and slowly going away from here ,
Would be correct strategy” thought Hanuman and went along with those Asuras.
5829.Indrajit who
won victory over Indra , the king of Devas ,
Along with the ocean like army surrounding
him , took,
Hanuman who was like
a tied bull to the palace
,
Of Ravana who
was shining with his Royal umbrellas.
5830. The emissaries
of Indrajit ran and met
Ravana ,
Who had won over
all the directions and told him,
“Oh king , Your
son Indrajit using the
arrow of Lord Brahma ,
Who sits on the lotus flower and caught
hold of that monkey.”
5831.As soon as he heard that , Ravana , whose mind stood
tall,
Due to great
joy removed the huge
pearl garland ,
That he was
wearing over the chest which was like a moon less sky,
And which was black due to having swallowed darkness
And which was
earlier rolling over the tusks
of ,
The elephants of directions and gave them as a gift.
5832. With limitless
happiness and with exuberant shoulders,
Ravana who had
eyes like the fully open red lily flowers
told them,
“You run quickly
and tell my order that “Bring
that monkey alive” to my son Indrajit.”
5833.The emissaries
as per the order of Ravana went ,
And told those words To Indrajit who
had completely ,
Removed the word ”Enemy”
so that he understands them,
And this spread
everywhere and we will now tell,
About the
state of Sita who heard
this very cruel news.
5834.To Sita who
had heard earlier that , “He
destroyed ,
The Sweet scented Asoka Vana , he killed
limitless Rakshasas”
And who was
happy , Trijata who had a faultless mind
,
Told about the
sorrowful things that happened ,
To the greatly valorous Hanuman and Sita
,
Hating to live any further , with great
worry told.
5835. That Sita
whose body was covered with
dust.
Looking like a picture
covered by smoke and losing its luster,
And was as
tender and soft as a flower
, became like a swan with tender
feathers,
Which was sorrowing
because its little one was in the hands
of a cruel hunter ,
Told these words
about Hanuman and wailed.
5836. “You
went piercing in to the
very broad sky ,
And learnt all the arts
from the sun god .
And such a person as you
has been imprisoned ,
By a cheating Rakshasa, Is this the property of Dharma?”
5837.”You crossed
the ocean and came here and destroyed ,
The strength of the body of many thorn like Rakshasas and
became victorious,
Oh Sir , who has
stout shoulders and have defeated the strength of enemies,
Because you were caught by the Asuras
, you only increased my sorrow.”
5838.”You brought
the signet ring of Rama so
that I can see it ,
And saved my life from destruction and
for that I blessed you,
That will never become a lie and it is definite that it would increase your life span,
Showing the strength of your mountain like shoulders ,
You earned a
very bad name which is difficult to be erased.”
5839. “You who gave me my soul , as per orders of Rama , you saw me and went off,
And went against your word that “ my lord
Rama would travel a long
distance
And in a very ferocious war would kill Ravana and
release you from prison.”
5840.Sita who has the fire of
chastity which will put off fire,
After saying
these words in a suitable manner ,
Become worn out and fainted like
the mother cow ,
When its calf is caught
by wild animals , giving great pain to its soul.
5841 The expert in war
Indrajit who had tied in the
war Hanuman who was elder
In wisdom and
in great qualities reached the palace
of Ravana ,
Who was ruling all the three worlds as its
king,
Due to the power
of the great penance he performed.
5842.Ravana was sitting with
white royal umbrella made by
pearl and other gems ,
Which were giving
luster to all the three worlds like
the moon ,
Which gave cool
shade and lustrous light and
Ravana with his,
Very poor shoulders had
lifted the pretty silver
Kailasa mountain , ,
From the earth
till it touched the sky..
5843.Ravana was having the scars
in his body made by Lord Vishnu
,
Who was having a Garuda flag using
his divine wheel, ,
By the Vajrayudha
of Indra , and by the
trident of three eyed Shiva
And having big
marks created by lovely maidens who
have soft hair dripping with honey,
With very sword like
sharp nails of their
fingers in hands folded
like buds.
5844. Ravana
with his red lustrous long locks of hairs falling ,
On all the directions and
from them rows after rows of red light flames ,
Standing erect
and with his long breath
giving rise to huge smoke,
Due to his very great anger was like the northern fire to the southern direction.
5845, Ravana with
the great light of emerald and long light of
red gem stone ,
Which was
fearlessly swallowing the complete darkness even in the hell ,
Was sitting spreading
his ten heads in all the ten directions ,
And was looking
like the thousand headed king of snakes ,
Sitting very
happily on the royal cot.
5846.Ravana was
with ornaments
made by collection of
selected and studded gems ,
Which were
rubbing with his upper
cloth giving out very great light,
Which were worn
on his pretty shoulders and was
seated like ,
A very huge black
sea wearing the
golden crown of the
Meru mountain.
5847. Ravana was
wearing a red cloth
over his hips , was wearing ,
Garlands
made of beaded
pearls and other ornaments
,
And was spreading
light like that of a full moon and because
of that ,
Was like darkness
wearing the red sky , wearing
stars as ornaments ,
And was sitting
under the shade the royal umbrella of full moon.
5848.Ravana was the matchless place
of residence ,
Of wealth , great
Vedas and strength greater than the sky
And Whenever he saw with his ten faces
in all directions,
The guardians of those directions and
those ,
Who guard the top
and the bottom were greatly scared.
5849. Ravana
after meeting and looking at
Sita , who was the wife,
Of the only
Lord , felt that all those ladies who were resembling the peacock,
Living from the
Patala where serpents live to
the Sathyaloka of Brahma ,
Which was in the big sky
and in all the intervening world, were males.
5850. Ravana kept away from monkeys , the Gods
Vishnu and Lord Shiva ,
Men who are engaged in silly occupations who
had berated by him,
And some of those
who kept away from him but all others
,
Along with Asuras
with spears tainted by flesh
surrounded him.
5851. Ravana was
living with string instruments like
veena,
Giving out
honey like music and the
perfect instrument called Kanja Karuvi,
The completely full Chillari instrument and Kurudau instrument which keeps beats ,
Constantly producing music and deva ladies singing
music ,
Which were like
nectar , filling up all his twenty
ears.
5852. Ravana
with an approving smile looked at the Deva Maiden Menaka
,
Who danced with
her feet which was much softer than flower petals,
With her eyes and
concentrated mind which were
concentrated on it ,
With the
dancing symbols shown by her
hands accompanied by music,
Along with the beat , by the sound of drums which
were in consonance with her
steps
Which on being
witnessed by sages doing penance ,
Would make them leave
out the search for salvation.
5853. Ravana would
drink the honey from the face
of those ladies
Who had love tiff with them using one of his ten faces,,
With another face
drank the alcohol of joy from
the face ,
Of the lady who was
loving him , with another face drank
,
The nectar of sign
of love from those ladies who were singing
And with another face
drank the nectar of beauty
from the face of a dancing lady.
5854.Ravana with
one face passed the orders for
governing to the Devas,
With one face engaged
in consultation with ministers,
commanders and diplomats,
With another face
thinking about his thoughts about the evil deeds done by him,
And another face
fixed on the external beauty of
the parrot like Sita,
5855 . Another
of the faces of Ravana was thinking about
how to swim the ocean ,
Of Chastity of
Sita who had tender fingers like red Kanthal flowers and was getting worried,
Another face
was seeing his beauty
in the mirrors held by ,
The pretty ladies
who had applied sandal
paste on their breasts.
5856. Like a bee
which is depressed because it
was not able to get,
The honey from
flower in a bush as it cannot enter in
to the bush,
Seeing
Ravana’s mind going after lady
Sita , the ladies who loved him,
Were sad ,
depressed, agitated and sorrowing and their
tears ,
From their eyes
which were like a row of
spears ,
And which were looking at the twenty shoulders of Ravana , fell on their breasts,
5857.The breeze
which drunk the honey mixed the
pollen grains ,
Went through the
slushy sandal paste applied , on the
bud like breasts ,
Of the ladies of
Ravana and became scented ,
youthful and cool ,
And with the aim of troubling Ravana , like
the poison mixed with sorrow ,
Went through his body
, increasing his pain.
5858.Ravana was like Sun God to his ladies with crescent
like forehead,
And with a face
full of red lines resembling the
big lotus flowers ,
Making them happy
and was like the moon god to his
enemies,
Who were the devas and
Asuras who were like unopened
lotus flowers.
5859. Hanuman saw
Ravana , the lord of eight
directions sitting like this ,
And became
angry like the Garuda who
has seen a big black snake,
And thought , “I
would break this Brahmastra which is tying me
,
And jump and attack
this poison like Ravana.”
5860. “Earlier I
left him alive because it is
wrong to kill a sleeping person,
But now he is
sitting on a throne made of gold and gems .
What is the need of thinking so much about it ? Now itself, I will
break his heads,
Shatter them and
release the flower filled creeper like Sita ,
Who is like the
support to Dharma and go away swiftly from here”, thught he .
5861”.Even
after seeing that Sita
the wife of the valorous Rama ,
Is in kept in prison here, the inefficient devas and Asuras
are keeping quite,
And while they are
seeing clearly , I would pluck the ten heads of the sinner ,
And throw them and
there is no other duty to me as a servant of Rama.”
5862.”Is it a small thing to be told , that a monkey who came in search of Sita,
Making the ladies
who are his and who are near him run away in great fear ,
Rolled his several heads along with his crowns in different directions ,
And is shouting in
joy after achieving great victory . That
monkey is indeed cruel.”
5863.”I kept my soul in my body so that
I can directly see this Ravana ,
Who has teeth like
the long sword, talk to him few words
and return,
But if I do that
only bad fame would come to me
but if ,
I wage a war
against him ,even if I get defeated and
killed ,
And am not able to win over him , I would get only fame.”
5864 After
thinking like this , he
further thought ,”Breaking
this serpent rope ,
Like a big lion
jumping on the mountain , in one jump I
will reach him,”
But he decided
after further thought “this is not a good act .”
5865.”He is not
one , who can be killed easily
by any body , and observing his
army,
It looks that it is not possible for any one to achieve victory over him,
Only Rama can achieve
victory over this Ravana who
seems ,
To the collection
of all darkness from very early times,
Would anybody else be able to achieve
victory over him?”
5866.”It would be difficult for this Ravana to win
over me, and before him,
It would be difficult for me to win him due to his many valorous supporters,
If I start war
with him , I would have spend a lot of time in that war ,
And so is it
proper for me to start the war
with him?”Hanuman thought.
5867.”It is my penance
that to cut and roll on earth ,
The big shoulders
and strong ten heads so that,
All the seven worlds
above would become happy ,
But there is an
oath taken by Lord Rama also.”
5868.”If I spend my time
fighting in the cruel rising
war ,
I have to live in
in this city of Lanka for one month
,
And it is definite
that Sita who took an oath on
Rama ,
With very pretty eyes
that she would live in Lanka only ,
For one more month , would definitely give up her life.”
5869.”Due to the above
reasons, it is not pretty for me,
To fight a war
and taking the role of very good
emissary ,
Would only lead to
good results.” Thinking like this
that Hanuman,
Who was doing matchless
help to Rama , the Lord of all Vedas ,
Neared the
place where the enemy Ravana was sitting with a victorious sword.
5870.That Indrajit
who drove away the Devas who had eaten the nectar from the sea,
Showed
Hanuman to the king Ravana
who was sitting ,
In the middle of
the crowd of pretty wives having
eyes like a sharp sword.
5871.Reaching that Ravana who has won victory in war , in all the worlds that exist,
Indrajit stood
before him and told him that “ the masculine monkey is a
valorous hero,
Who fought like
Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva , “And saluted
Ravana with folded hands.
5872,The sparks of fire that went towards Hanuman from the angry eyes of
Ravana ,
Burnt and made
black the hairs on the body of that
Hanuman ,
And smoke from there
went along the deep breaths of Ravana
that hit Hanuman,
And tied Ravana
like the serpent rope that had tied Hanuman.
5873. That Ravana
who was as cruel as God of death
, with great anger ,
Making the
surrounding Devas and others who
were his enemies , greatly scared,
Looked at Hanuman
asked him , “Who are you? Why
have you come here ?,
And also asked
Hanuman about his present
state.”
5874.”Are you Lord Vishnu with the wheel ? Are you
Indra with Vajrayudha?
Are you Lord Shiva with a long spear? Are you Brahma sitting on the lotus flower?,
Are you the fearless Adhi sesha with many heads who is one among those who carries the earth ?
Have you come
hiding your real form to fight the war and destroy Lanka??”
5875. “Are the black God of death who stands and ties and takes away the souls by his rope?
Are you the
victorious Lord Subrahmanya , who drove
his spear in to Krouncha mountain?
Are you Yama the guardian of southern direction ? Who
are you,
Among all
the other guardians
of all other directions?” Ravana
asked .
5876.”Are you a
cruel ghost who was created by the
Yaga of Brahmins ,
And ordered by
them to come over to this place ?
Are you a Deva ,
who is newly created by Lord Brahma who sits on lotus ,
Who has been sent
with an order “Destroy the city of
Lanka “?
5877.That Ravana
who had completely consumed the fame of devas ,
Looking at Hanuman further told , “Who are
you?,
Why have you come
here? Who had sent you?.
Please tell all
this as per my order , so that I can
understand it.”
5878.Hanuman replied
“I am not any one of those
mentioned by you,
I have come here
bearing orders of powerless
people and I have ,
Come to Lanka
as an emissary of a
matchless expert ,
In Archery who has
eyes like the petals of pretty lotus flower.”
5879.”If you want to know who that is , He is the one born,
To do a great job
which is beyond imagination for
the sake of ,
Sages, Devas , the
trinity ,all those who are all like them,
And all the things in the world who
are mere things.”
5880. “He is the
one who has decided to destroy with
his one arrow,
The
strengths that you have earned,
The strength of penances done by you earlier,
The army that you
have assembled , the good boons
given to you by Devas ,
The greatness
that you posses, the fames that
you have written on pillars of
victory ,
The modified royal life
that you are leading and all that
are connected with you.”
5881.”He is neither a Deva nor
Asura , He is not one of the elephants of direction,.
He is not a guard
of direction, He is not the pretty Kailasa mountain of Lord Shiva,
He is not the trinity
, He is not other saints but
he is the son of a great king,
Who ruled over
all the earth spreading up to
its boundaries.”
5882.”The real wisdom,
the teachings about that,
faultless good activities,
And the permanent
boons that are obtained by
great and true penance ,
Give him the results
that are desired by him, and
that expert archer ,
Is the ultimate
God , the true God of Dharma
as told by the Vedas.”
5883.”If you ask me
, why that God has been
born as a prince ,
He is the one who
cannot be described by Vedas and Upanishads ,
He is the ultimate
God who is the properties of everything known,
He is the one who
came running to protect the
elephant ,
When it was attacked
by the crocodile , when it
shouted “Oh primeval God” ,
And he has come to this world
now to protect the Devas.”
5884.”It is that
primeval God who does not have
beginning, end or middle ,
Who is above past , present and future and the numbers told by books,
Who is the cause
of every thing , who has left
off his spear ,
Wheel, Conch and
water pot but carrying a
bow ,
And who has left
his old living places of banyan leaf
, lotus flower ,
As well as Kailasa
mountain who was born as
Rama in the city of Ayodhya.”
5885. “That divine God
who removes the
diseases of birth -death cycle,
Of those who
pray his pretty
divine feet , For establishing Dharma,
For making people know and follow the path of Dharma as told by the Vedas ,
For making them
follow the path of good , for
destroying the evil people,
For removing sorrows
of good people and make them,
Attain salvation ,
has taken the incarnation in Ayodhya.
5886.”I am only a slave
to that great one and my
name is Hanuman.
Among the monkey
army which was sent to search for Sita,
With the good forehead to
all the four directions ,
the army,
That came to the South was commanded
By Angadha,
And I have come
here as his emissary”, Hanuman told.
5887. When Hanuman told like this , Ravana
laughed with his teeth,
Shining like
lightning between the clouds told,
“Oh emissary who was
sent by the son of Vali , Does ,
The very strong
Vali live happily along with his strength?,
Does his rule of
his kingdom going on well?” and when he asked
like this,
Hanuman who was
the emissary of Rama who is the
lord of everything laughed.
5888.”Oh Asura ,
do not get scared, Vali who is of great
anger ,
Has reached the
heavens and would not return, His tail
was ,
Also destroyed on
that day. He died with great sorrow ,
Due to an arrow of Rama
with black body by his,
One arrow that can destroy his enemies and our present king,
Is Sugreeva , who is son of Sun God” , Hanuman told .
5889. “How did that Rama , by getting which strength killed,
That Vali by an arrow
which had a very long tip?.
Where is that Rama
now? Please tell me , under what
circumstances,
Is Angadha searching for wife of Rama?” asked Ravana
,
And Hanuman ,
the son of wind God replied as follows.
5890.”To Rama with red eyes who came
searching for Sita,
Our Lord Sugreeva
became a soul like friend and
when Sugreeva
Requested Rama
to remove the great sorrow that
was caused by Vali ,
That pretty Rama who
was beyond the ability of artists
,
To draw his picture gave
word to him that he would help him ,
Get back his wife Rama
and also get the kingdom of
monkeys , and killed Vali.”
5891. After
living in that mountain of Sugreeva for four months ,
Sitting in the
middle of the very huge monkey army
that had assembled there,
That greatly
valorous Rama ordered “You all go and search for Sita”,
And we have come in search of her and
this is all that happened.”
Said Hanuman the
emissary sent by Rama and hearing
that Ravana said.
5892. “If you
have agreed to become a slave to that
Rama , who killed,
The matchless king
of the monkey clan and who had greatness ,
By using his arrow
, Where would your fame go and end.
If the world says
that the fame will merge with you,
Then the world made
prosperous by the clouds is indeed , feminine.”
5893.”What news
has your lord Sugreeva who made
Rama kill his own brother ,
And is showing
love towards him , who killed his brother , sent?
What did you want
to tell me? Why did you who came as an
emissary to me,
Wage war against
me ? We would not kill you who
has come as an emissary,
So without having
any fear in your mind , tell the
truth clearly”, Said Ravana.
5894. Hanuman who was
having good nature , much more
than we think,
After thinking about the words of Ravana , who was wearing a garland of fire bunches,
Thought that he
would tell common words of justice
suitable for all , and said.
5895.” I have come here
as the emissary of Sugreeva,
the son of Sun God,
What ever I tell you
are very reasonable and blessed with justice ,
They are meant for your good and are
completely faultless,
If you think they
are good, I will tell them to you.”
5896. “You are unnecessarily spoiling
your life with all wealth,
And did not bother to see the never dying rules of
Dharma,
Your sins have increased a lot and your end is very near ,
So if you listen to what
I say and follow them ,
You can still protect
your life for a very long time.”
5897.”Since you caused
sorrow to Lady Sita who
observes,
The dharma of chastity
which never can be destroyed ,
And whose
anger can never be prevented and
Who is purer than
fire , you have lost
the result of your great penance
,
Which can never be adequately described
and got ,
As a result of controlling all your five senses.”
5898.”Due to the pride
that you got because
you won over,
The wise devas ,
The greatness of life has gone from you
long back.
And whatever was
remaining has almost been
destroyed today ,
And whatever
little which is remaining
would ,
Be destroyed either today or tomorrow . Would it remain
stable?.”
5899.””Sin is not
strong enough to destroy good Dharma,”
Is the truth told by elders but you
removed that saying from your
mind,
Without proper thought
, due to the disease of passion
,
That you have towards
Sita who is purely chaste ,
You are
destroying your purity , got out of great penance .”
5900 .”Due to the pride of illegal passion
, those who have forgotten the good path,
Are people who
are proud of their wisdom and they
would by dying,
Being insulted which
would come in an alternate manner
,
And those who have
gone away from Dharma would not
be in a good position.”
5901.” Those innumerable males who wear
flower garlands frequented by
bees,
Who behave
outside the limit due to their passion for young ladies
In this earth
surrounded by the fearful
ocean on all sides,
Would lose all
their fame in the fire of the cremation
ground.”
5902. “Those
great people who follow
the rules of Dharma,
Would avoid desire
on wealth and desire for
passionate acts,
Would not think
there is any other darkness in
this world ,
And would not think
there is any other good wisdom,
Except giving charity to poor ,
showing mercy on everyone ,
And completely
remove attachment to passionate
love.”
5903. “Would this
masculinity which due to passion,
Makes one
desire another’s wife ,
leading to others,
Laugh
disparagingly at us , which makes us shameless,
And result in
criticism be considered as good character.”
5904. “Among the
kings this world surrounded by ocean with tides
Who have ruled it and later died , who are
there who have ,
AS much wisdom
as well as justice like you ?
Would you , who have desire to rule
this earth as per ,
The rules of justice told
in the Vedas , like to cross the limit
set by the Vedas.”
5905. “If one
desires a lady who hates
us and rejects our proposal of love ,
If we continue to live
then on , after being shamed by her
,
It would be
like one cutting away our pretty nose , in the middle of our face ,
And our
claiming that our face
is still pretty.”
5906”.Though you have several pretty
hands that can destroy the world,
And have one thousand heads , Would they
be able to protect you ?
For they would
all be destroyed like
hundreds of apparels,
Caught in
the cruel fire
which would destroy the world , by Rama’s arrows.”
5907” Lord Shiva who due to his anger burnt the three cities ,
Gave you
boons appreciating the songs you sung accompanied by the strumming
Of strings
but they may some times fail
but do not think that the arrow,
Of Rama who
follows the Vedic percepts would ever fail.”
5908. “You who
are liked by many who are
experts in doing acts ,
That lead to
other people laughing at them ,
destroying the shame ,
That should be preserved
, destroying your wealth as the king,
Possessing very base habits , would you
travel in the evil path.”
5909.Among the
people who have been born in
good clans and
those ,
Great people
who have attained the birth less state ,
And all
those who greater than even the Devas and others except you,
There is no one
who have forgotten Rama . This is the great truth.
5910.”And so to
protect your great wealth
which cannot be earned by others,
Your very famous
and great relations and also your own life ,
Give back Sita
to Rama “ was
the message sent to you by Sugreeva ,
Of great luster who is
the son of Sun God “ Said Hanuman looking at Ravana.
5911. When Hanuman
told like this , Ravana who knew nothing except victory ,
Said , “It looks like that this message was told
to me by a monkey,
A silly
monkey who wanders around
the mountains .
This seems to be great, great” and then laughed uproariously
.
5912.” Let us not
deal with the message sent by Sugreeva ,
And the victory of the human beings, Rama and Lakshmana .
How is it that
you who are messenger
after entering Lanka
Have killed the
Rakshasas, Please tell me the
reason “He asked Hanuman.
5913.Hanuman said
,” Because there was no one to show you to me,
I destroyed your
security garden. Then I killed
those who came to kill me,
And even after
that my coming to you with great simplicity ,
I came here to see
you and tell you the news.”
5914. When Hanuman told like this without fear , that Ravana,
Who had lustrous teeth like the sword which spread fire
to a long distance ,
Became very
angry and ordered , “Kill this monkey
“
And when the hangmen reached the palace
, Vibheeshana,
Who walked in path
of justice told “Stop” and prevented the hangmen.
5915. Then Vibheeshana stood up in the council
and saluted ,
With his long hands
his elder brother who is an
Asura and said.
“Oh king who never slips away from justice , this great
anger is not justified.”
And with great peace
he told true words which
are liked by all.
5916. “Oh king who
is qualified, Oh expert in Vedas , you are the great king,
Who knew the path of penance to Lord Brahma who
created the three worlds ,
Who had the capacity
to conquer the rule of three
worlds by defeating Indra,
And would you kill one who says, “I have come here as an emissary to pass on a message?”
5917.”In this this expanse of earth and among all the globes, inside and
outside,
Where the rule of
Vedas which are not false
is being implemented,
Among the kings of various kingdoms , there were people who killed ladies,
But among the just
there is no one who has killed the emissary.” Vibheeshana told.
5918.”By killing the emissaries who reach
the place of the enemy without fear
,
Tell the message
conveyed to them by those who
have sent them in a true manner ,
Who control the
great anger of the enemy by their
power of conversation,
And who have made , telling truth as their penance , you would make
The great ones of
great wisdom and character laugh at you,
And not only
that it would be a crime committed by
our clan.” Said Vibheeshana.
5919.”Oh king who
rules the entire earth surrounded by lashing tides of ocean,
Killing this one who has been sent by our enemies would be a crime and not only that,
This would make
Lord Shiva with a trident , Lord
Vishnu who killed Mura,
Lord Brahma and
other devas who are in the sky,
Who are jealous of
our growth , laugh at our folly.”
5920.”The valorous
Rama and Lakshmana who were
experts in true justice ,
Did not kill our
sister but disfigured her by
chopping her two ears and nose,
And sent her alive
to tell you about it and when it is
like that ,
If you take away
the soul of this emissary “He would not
be in a position,
To tell our enemies
about the news here.” Said Vibheeshana convincingly.
5921.”Oh younger brother, What you said is correct but this monkey has ,
Definitely committed a
crime. Killing him would be a
crime “ saying this,
Ravana looked at
Hanuman and told, “Go back with speed
and bring them here,
For a war with speed.” And then he looked at
the Asuras there and
ordered them,
“Please destroy by
burning the troublesome tail of this
monkey ,
Drag him all over the city and drive him from the boundary of our city.”
And the
Asuras who were standing near by started from
there making great sound.
5922. When these things happened Indrajit
who had won over the devas in
war,
Told, “When the monkey
has been tied by Brahmastra it
should not be burnt ,
And so bring the
best of ropes and tie its shoulders
properly “ and then,
Removed the tie of
divine Brahmastra , which had the form
of the serpent,
And within an
extremely short time , they tied
Hanuman with ,
Ropes intertwined
with each other and
started pulling him.
5923.Because of that
the swings at home lost their
long ropes,
The chariots lost the ropes used to tie them
, the well tied horses,
Lost the
ropes used to tie and control
them, the elephants,
Which were
experts in war fare lost the
rope tying their legs and necks,
And that entire city did not have anything which could be called as rope.
5924. The Asuras
brought the different types of
ropes from heaven,
The ropes they had plundered from devas
by showing their strength,
The divine ropes
got as boons , the numerous ropes which were ,
Usurped from all
others by waging war and
all the strong ropes ,
That they saw anywhere
and tied Hanuman, Only
the Mangalya ,
Rope tied in the
neck of their wives remained intact.
5925.That faultless
Hanuman thought ‘The enemies themselves
,
Have freed me from the tie of the divine Brahmastra ,
Which I could not cut off due to principles of Dharma,
And so I have
achieved the victory achieved by
them for so long.
The order of
Ravana to burn my tail, appears to be a permission given to me,
To burn this city.” And he remained in the middle of the asuras ,
With happiness
waiting for opportune moment.
5926.After the
strong ropes tied his body acting as if
he did not have ,
Sufficient strength
, Hanuman who was surrounded by
cruel Rakshasas,
Though he knew how
to get out of the tie, did not show any
urgency to do it,
Which was similar to
a yogi who had knowledge of
Brahman but ,
Showing outside
that he thought ignorance is great knowledge,
Hanuman went
along those Asuras who were pulling him.
5927. Thus the Asuras
tied Hanuman and with him , they crossed ,
The gates of the
palace of Ravana , reached an open space ,
And those
impatient Asuras surrounded
Hanuman from all sides ,
And raised huge sound of joy , and tied the long tail of that monkey ,
Completely with
different types of cloths , dipped it in oil and ghee ,
And lighted it
with cruel fire and shouted loudly
making the world aghast.
5928.Then the
hundred thousand Rakshasas caught
on both sides,
That strong rope which cannot be destroyed, which tied
the body of Hanuman,
And these Asuras were surrounded by Samudra(A very huge number) of
security guards,
Who were surrounded
by number of Asuras
who touched the directions.
Beyond that
stood several Asuras to watch the fun and their number was beyond counting.
5929 .The servants of Ravana shouted ,” Come, come to see
that monkey ,
Which destroyed
Asoka Vana which had great
security, killed great Asuras,
Including Aksha kumara
, which spoke privately with Sita and told her,
About the strength of silly human beings and which is now in a pitiable state .”
In such a way
that people of all the streets
and homes knew about it.
5930. They shouted this news so loudly as if they wanted it to reach ,
Beyond this universe and pulled Hanuman hither and thither
.
They also raised huge sound by beating huge drums.
Some shouted at Hanuman , some saw round him
and some ,
Ran to Sita and informed about
what happened to Hanuman,
Hearing which that lady Sita became extremely agitated.
5931. Sita meditated
on the fire God and told him, “Oh
fire God,
If you happen to
see Hanuman who is soul like friend of my Lord Rama ,
Who helps others
like mother, being ill treated
by the cruel Asuras
Who do not have
any good qualities and are as base
as a dog,
Would you not take
mercy on him. You are the matchless witness of the world,
And you know about my state of chastity and if it is true that
,
I am pure in my
chastity, do not burn that Hanuman ,
I salute you
humbly and beg you for this.”
5932.When that great lady
who had soft white teeth told like this ,
The fire God who has great light was greatly scared and
the hair,
On the body of
Hanuman had a pleasant feeling of coolness.
And the great
tail of Hanuman became cool up to its bone.
5933. The northern fire
in side the ocean , the fire of earth which is very hot,
Apart from that
the fire of heavens , the
fire protected by the sages,
And the fire in the
third eye of Lord Shiva which
burnt the three cities,
Became cool and
what further needs to be told now.
5934.The fire in
the hands of Brahma who is beyond this universe also became cool,
The fire places of
Yagnas also became cool , the thunder
in between the clouds became
cool,
The Solar
system which has victorious and very hot rays and which swallows the darkness,
Also became cool
And fire of hell which never changes from its nature also became cool.
5935.Hanuman who
had mind full of devotion towards
Sita and Rama,
Seeing that though the fire was burning
all over his body which was like mountain,
It was not burning him but was cool , thought
about the possible reason,
And decided it
was due to the chastity of Sita , the
daughter of Janaka.
5936.Though that Hanuman
who came in search of the divine
lady , had searched ,
All over the city
in the previous night and
understood it by his wisdom,
Saw it again in a very clear manner as those
foolish Asuras showed it to him,
And like the wisdom
which goes hidden behind
all things, saw everything well.
5937.After examining
the entire town minutely and
reaching to its end ,
Hanuman thought
that it was proper time to escape , tucked the two side ropes ,
In his arm pits
and rose up in the sky making the
two lakhs hands,
Holding it hang on it like a
pillar and all those Asuras fell
down on earth.
5938.Those hundred
thousand asuras who fell down
singly , broke ,
Their shoulders
and fell down dead and Lord Hanuman
along with the ropes,
Which had tied
his body tightly was seen floating on
the sky ,
And was similar to Garuda
which had caught a crowd of
serpents.
5939.Making the
primeval Lord Shiva wjo completely burnt the city of Tripura
,
And all those things which were said to have helped him
feel ashamed ,
Hanuman
decided that , he
would burn the city of Lanka populated by the sinful Asuras ,
After first praying to Rama by lighting it up by the
burning fire,
He introduced his
golden tail in to the golden city of Lanka.
5940. The ability
in war of that great Hanuman who burnt
the big city of Lanka,
Which extended up to water
filled ocean from all sides , within no time ,
Was similar To
Lord Shiva who had coral like red body
,bent ,
The bow of the
mountain of Meru and sent an arrow to burn
the Tripuras.
5941. He went on jumping
and setting fire in a row to the mansions
Built with great
ability by the great architect
Visvakarma due to his
great ability of hands ,
Using silver . gold
and several types of
shining gems , putting in very great
effort ,
Similar to the
burning thunders at
deluge which falls
on all mountains.
5942. Due to the fact
that the black Asuras has
prevented Yagas being
performed,
By offering the ghee , The fire God who was very hungry at that time ,
Caught hold of the tail
of Hanuman as his support , and
being fed by ,
Lord Shiva who
swallowed the poison burnt the city
of Lanka,
With great speed
like the world being burnt at time of deluge.
13.Ilankai eriyuttu padalam
Chapter on burning
Lanka and feeding it to fire.
(This chapter
describes how the entire city
of Lanka was burnt by Hanuman. He hears the Vidhyadharas talking about safety of Sita, goes
there and take leave from her.
5943.The cruel fire placed by hanuman
on all huge mansions with
great security ,
Burnt catching hold of flags , burning the roofs ,
surrounding huge pillars ,
And surrounding
all the walls and destroyed them completely.
5944. The fire kept by Hanuman at the gates of mansions m
Surrounded that
pretty building and covered it with
fire ,
And due to the
fire burning it completely , the harried
citizens,
Were wandering like swing not
knowing where to go ,
And great
sorrow , wailed in a very big voice.
5945. Those mansions
had the light due to luster of
gems,
And with fire
burning it with red colour , the ladies
wearing pretty bangles,
Were not able to
know which area was burning and which
was not ,
And due to that they became very confused and were not knowing what to do,
5946. Due to falling
of different type of
flowers , which store honey in them,
Ladies who
resembled peacocks which used play in the forest as they like
Seeing the
smoke hiding the sky for a long
distance , cried loudly,
Not knowing the
direction by which their husbands
went.
5947. The Rakshasas
and Rakshasis greatly
shouted after seeing the fire,
And went on pouring water on those
surrounding them and due to,
Fire and their red
hair resembling each other they
were not able to ,
Differentiate
between hair with fire and areas without fire.
5948.Similar to
the great people who want to remove the mixture of
illusion,
And attain their
normal exalted state , The fire that were in the homes of Asuras,
Assumed their
usual ferocious form, as if they have been
freed from control of Ravana.
5949 Similar to
Lord Vishnu going to Mahabali and after
his giving the land ,
For the sake of measuring the three worlds by his steps
grew tall with a black body
And like him that
hot smoke went up and spread
every where.
5950.All those
elephants which were black, due to fire
falling and burning them,
Had their skin removed and became similar to
the white Iravatha elephant ,
Which was with
great rage and belonged to Lord Indra of the east.
5951.That cruel smoke which appeared to be covered by snow ,
When surrounded by
lustrous and auspicious fire,
Scared the cloud
like buffaloes making them fall on ponds with water ,
Which is liked by them
, and making the girls who were playing there ,
Run away from there,
like very young swans.
5952. When the big
sparks which rose from the fire got scattered
And fell on all places like a collection of thunder , the
ocean,
Which produces
sound like a bomb
got boiled ,
The fish
living there unable to bear the heat , became exhausted and died.
5953. The fire which drinks away everything spreading and surrounding
Started burning the
golden mansions by going inside
them,
The gold got melted
and started flowing and when they entered the sea,
They became
concentrated long bars of gold.
5954. Due to the fire’s capacity to burn the world, faster than hot words of the wise
,
The row of mountain like mansions made by gems along with the long
and tall gardens,
Continued to burn
and the earth being golden , it also melted.
5955.Due to the collection of smoke which
were stronger than stones ,
Spreading everywhere, the golden heavens
which have Karpaga climbers
,
Became dark and
all the chariots which have been
decorated by gems,
Along with wheels
melted and became in to one single mass.
5956. The burning fire
entering in to roads with drinking materials ,
Drank the alcohol
left there after drinking
by many Asuras ,
Proving the fact that
when pure people reach ,the place
,
With impure people
would make them those who do impure acts.
5957. The
fire which was making booming sound around Lanka,
Because it was jumping and spreading , the water
of the faultless sea,
Around that city started
boiling greatly and due to
more and more,
Of the light of the fire spreading , even the clouds of the sky,
Having very cool water
started boiling.
5958.Those Rakshasis
wer suffering due to being burnt
all over their body,
And those who
were trying escape
by running through the sky seeing
below,
That it was
river in the forest and when they jumped in to it,
They felt in to
the hot water running like a ghost’s chariot.
5959. Due to fire catching in the gardens blessed with lot of honey,
The bees which were
attached to the flowers looking
like clouds ,
Seeing the flames that
entered that garden and also
went beyond ,
Thought that it is
a black forest of lotus flowers , jumped
in to it and died.
5960. Some Rakshasi ladies with forehead resembling bent bows ,
Thought “Our soul
like husbands died because a monkey killed them,
And because of
that we lost our life and we
cannot go outside our homes”
And with
determination took a decision
and fell on that fire and died.
5961. Due to the
burning , the flowers became black
, the new leaves got burnt ,
The leaves and
their mid ribs got burnt and
became in to charcoal,
Branches got
burnt and became ash and the trees branches
,
And also the roots got burnt in to coal ,and the garden
became a heap of coals.
5962. The flame of
the fire which rose up and drowned the
clouds ,
Went up and burnt
the golden city of Indra and due to that,
The melting gold fell down like rain
continuously and ,
The entire heaven looked like the hanging roots of dense trees.
5963. The greatly ebbing and rising flame
of that fire ,
Reached the moon
with pleasant and white rays ,
Made it greatly
melt and due
to nectar falling down from there
,
Some of the dead
Rakshasas became alive.
5964. Due the
heat of the fire reaching the Sun ,
all the black clouds,
Which were floating in the sky became burnt and became black,
And looked like a
heap of charcoal and through them,
The Sun with
light appeared like a melting gold bar.
5965. The fire
which burnt the rope tying the
legs of horses,
Jumped up burnt
its neck rope and the poll to which it was tied ,
And it also burnt
the hairs that were hanging on
the faces of horses,
They who had curved hoofs and pretty colour became faded
and died.
5966. Those
Rakshasas who had the
strength to even swallow an elephant,
To escape from the fire rose up and when they were trying
to enter the heaven,
Which was golden,
due to their being surrounded by swirling smoke
,
Becoming not able
to breath and having breathed
in that smoke ,
Fainted like
those who have drowned in water ,
And fell in to that
great raging fire and died.
5967. Those Rakshasa
ladies who were wearing golden ornaments and ,
Had an ocean like
wide hips , when
the fire caught their silk,
Apparel Kosikam
(tied on hips) and spread up to
their upper cloth and,
Later spread to
their scented black hair and they fainted.
5968. Those Rakshasas
who had seen the ultimate edge
of love tiff,
With the Rakshasa
ladies who had white teeth making one feel,
That even on the
leaf of Ilva tree pearls can be produced,
And when their moon light like white dress was burnt by the fire
Which made them not able to
see the other shore
Of joy of love making, they all fell in the sea to quench their heat.
5969.When their pet birds
of green colour was burnt along with the cage ,
And they were greatly suffering , the ladies whose tears from the eyes with Kajal ,
Fell on their
breasts like steams , they with anxiety
to embrace their elephant like
husbands ,
Entered in to
the smoke following them like a
lightning entering the cloud.
5970.When the fire caught the elephant like mansions
, The Rakshasis ,
Who lived there ,
with their faultless gold ornaments
shining ,
Went and climbed in to the sky and were
hidden by the limitless smoke
there ,
And because of that
they looked like pretty dolls
,
Which were behind
the thin curtains made in Kalinga(Orissa).
5971.During the deluge mentioned in the
books , the very cruel
deathly fire ,
Would sip and
make dry the oceans where sharks live
and the faultless,
Good scent of
Akil tree and sandalwood tree which
blew and covered
,
The whole world
from the gardens of Lanka , which
were destroyed by that fire.
5972. The
very ample flame
of the fire which spreads
like lightning ,
Spread in
to the entire world and widened
and reached all the end of
directions,
And it was difficult
to differentiate the
burning gardens with Karpaga trees ,
From those karpaga
gardens which had not caught
fire on its braches.
(Karpaga
gardens where self luminous.)
5973. Since
that smoke of the fire made
the clan of fishes becoming,
Non existent in
the water of the ocean and due to it drinking away,
All the surrounding water , The clouds could not absorb any water ,
And when without knowing
this dashed against the mountain,
They were scattered
everywhere like the flower of silk cotton tree.
5974. Due to very
large smoke covering
everywhere , the silver coloured,
Kailasa
mountain also became black like
all other mountains,
The white swans became
black like crows, the white milky ocean,
Became black like
all other oceans and there was no difference ,
Between the white elephants of directions and the black
elephants.
5975. When the cruel fire
burnt the body of Rakshasas and made it scalded,
They whose skin
were peeled off , went and hid themselves
in the ocean,
So that the heat
would come down and due to their spread
hair ,
Which was red
spreading all over the ocean ,
Even the sea with
blowing tides appeared to be burning due to fire.
5976.With one baby on their waist holding another small baby by hand,
Followed by another crying baby following them , the
Rakshasa ladies,
Along with their relatives went
away from their places ,
But when their curly
hair caught fire they wailed and
jumped in to the sea.
5977.With
the wooden portion of the bows, spears and throw spears of
the armory
Becoming in to fire wood
, other iron weapons which were
shining like Sun,
Melting in that fire
, they all became in to one big
round sphere of iron,
As if they
searched for salvation and
attained the state of no difference.
5978.When the fire caught and started burning among
elephants with mask,
They broke the strong heavy
chains tying their neck as
well as feet,
Easily uprooted
the big pillars to which they were tied
, lifted up their big ears,
Lifted their tails
tying it to their back side
, lifted their trunks , wailed
and ran.
5979. Like those seeking
protection from the cheats who
do not have any mercy and grace
The birds being
scared to enter the cruel
smoke and cross to the
other side
Fell in to the black and cruel sea and unable
rise up from there,
Became food to the fishes which is their normal food.
5980.That fire which was rising up after emptying the ocean, lakes and ponds,
Spread over the long
land and after destroying
them , scalded the mountains,
And made them look like ember and like
the fire at deluge which burns,
The Meru mountain
destroyed the city of Lanka and
entered the home of Ravana.
5981. The deva maidens living in the palace of Ravana and
other divine maidens,
Were flustered and without knowing which direction they took , dispersed
from there.
Those who did not
run away roamed here and there and
were suffering ,
Like the day when Ravana the king of Lanka conquered the city of the devas.
5982,The musk kept
in the palace of Ravana , the scented
saffron flowers ,
And other food
additives , the flowers which opened on
the Karpaga trees,
Sandalwood , akil
pieces which are all scented
perfume materials ,
Got burnt turned
in to smoke and appeared like the big divine clouds
,
Which rains
scented honey which merged
with the natural perfume ,
Of the hairs of
the Divine maidens who
protect the eight directions.
5983.Due to the
flame of the fires spreading
everywhere , the palace ,
Of Valorous Ravana
who cannot be approached by any one ,
Due to his ocean like anger , which is long and tall and had seven stories
Was completely destroyed by the fire which was like fire at deluge.
5984.The
palace of Ravana which was tall like a mountain
,
Which had long and wide
and huge stories ,and due to it,
Being made
using faultless gold , when it was attacked ,
By the fire which
spread over it and melted
it ,
And it looked as if there
is a Meru mountain in the south.
5985.When the palace of Ravana was burning like this , Ravana,
And the crowd of
ladies belonging to him , got in to
the,
Pushpaka Vimana
which was made of gems and went
up.
All those
remaining Rakshasas who did not
die ,
With the speed of
thought went away from there.
Since the city of Lanka
was situated on a mountain it did not have
Such power of
thought and it got
destroyed.
5986.That greatly valorous Ravana who had
the kingship,
And who was expert
in chariot looked at the Asuras who came with him,
With fire like anger
asked , “Has the final deluge
which burns the seven worlds,
Which are one before the other started
burning them ?
What is the reason for this big fire which burnt the city of Lanka?”
5987.When Ravana asked like this, those strong Asuras who had lost ,
Their relations,
wealth and valour and were
sorrowing for it,
Saluting Ravana with folded hands told him,
“Oh God like king,
Due to the fire we
kept on the tail which was larger
than ocean with tides,
That monkey has burnt the city
.” and this made Ravana boil with
anger.
5988.”Today due
to the strength of that silly monkey
, the city of Lanka ,
Got burnt and turned to ashes and it like fire
swallowed the city and burped,
Seeing this the Devas will laugh at us .Our ability
in was seems to be great!,”
Said Ravana and due to great ebbing anger
laughed.
5989.That Ravana who had won over the Devas ordered,
“Whoever sees the fire God, Catch him and bring him
here.”
5990.That very
angry Ravana ordered , “Go and catch
that monkey,
Before it goes away and bring him here.”
5991. The charioteers who were near
Ravana went,
With great speed telling , “We would do that.”
5992. Innumerable valorous heroes and ,
People with
various responsibilities ,
Followed
those Charioteers.
5993.The greatest seven among them who were matchless ,
Rose up like a Sea
full of water, wore the
garland for war,
And made ready
the army that has been prepared well.
5994.They ran and surrounded the sky , as well as Lanka,
Which was in the
rim of the sea , searched for the great Hanuman,
And saw him by their own eyes on one side .
5995.They said, “Catch him, Catch him”,
They said “Hit
him, Hit him” and ,
Surrounded him completely and Hanuman,
Who was read
looked at them.
5996. Those cheating Asuras who had agreed to catch Hanuman,
Surrounded him like clouds and opposed him , using,
Their legs, their hands
and their spears and Hanuman ,
Surrounded them all by using his burning tail.
5997.That
Hanuman who had enclosed all the directions,
By his tail ,
uprooted a tree and beat the
Asuras with that ,
And due to that , the Asuras who had come
there with great anger ,
Lost all their
weapons as well as their souls .
5998. When Hanuman beat them, they became sorrowing,
And blood which flowed
from their wounds made slush
,
And flowed like a
river for putting out that red fire.
5999. Those
remaining soldiers who were
valorous like male lions,
Opposed
Hanuman and that son of wind god , who had learnt all arts ,
Killed them in
numbers that were three times more than
God of death.
6000.Among those Asuras who had black body like the cloud
.
Who had huge
shoulders as well as great ability
,
Fifty thousand of them were killed and all other people ,
Went and jumped in to the ocean which was full of water.
6001.Hanuman dipped his tail in the ocean , and,
Due to it the sea water
boiled and many more Asuras died,
Those who did not
die thinking that
it will bring bad
name to them, further fought with Hanuman.
6002.Those heroes riding on a chariot who surrounded,
Hanuman ,
fought with him showing their valour,
That cannot be
defeated , but Hanuman attacked them,
And apart from those
who were trying to get,
From that
fiend also were killed.
6003.Those Vidhyadharas
who went up in the sky ,
Were telling that the fire from the tail of Hanuman,
Did not even make hot
the periphery of the garden,
Where the
Goddess Sita with round breasts was staying.
6004. Hearing
what was being told by the
Vidhyadharas,
The Hanuman who was greatly masculine became happy ,
And also surprised
and satisfied that escaped from
getting bad name ,
Rose to the sky from there went and saluted at the divine feet,
Of Sita who was
wearing good gold bangles.
6005. AS soon as Sita saw Hanuman who was saluting
her ,
Her body which was boiling with worry about Hanuman, cooled down,
And asked him “Is there anything that I need to tell you?”
And that Hanuman
who was an expert in warfare ,
Said to her :My
salutations to you” and took leave from
her .
6006.”The very clear headed Hanuman went from there,
Thinking , “Those criminal Asuras if they see me ,
Would shout at me
, catch me and take them with
me”,
And The fire
God who was scared , went and hid himself.
14,Thiruvadi
thozhutha Padalam
Chapter on saluting the divine feet.
(Hanuman crosses the sea, rests in Mainaka mountain and
meets Angadha and the army of monkeys.
He told them in brief about what happened in Lanka. Though he did not tell them about the war, the monkeys could make a good guess about it.
They request Hanuman to proceed with speed and Meet Rama. Hanuman
meets Rama and salutes the Southern side where
lady Sita is there. Then he narrates her pitiable condition and also
gives her brooch to Rama. They all start
towards Lanka and reach the southern
sea.
In Valmiki
Ramayana, Hanuman does not rest in Mainaka .Angadha feels that they should fight with Ravana. Jambavan
dissuades him. All the monkeys go
together to meet Rama. In the middle they
destroy the Madhu vana of Sugreeva . Hanuman does not salute the
southern direction first but tells in
great detail about condition of Sita.)
6007 . With a determination
that he would leave Lanka with great speed,
He who was like Sun God,
reached a peak of a mountain near Lanka
,
Assumed a mega form like
Lord Vishnu who swallowed everything
,
And after saluting
in his mind the divine feet of Rama ,
Who is a valorous hero from Raghu clan and went speedily through the sky.
6008.That Hanuman who was like an elephant with a trunk
, reached,
The mountain called Mainaka , informed all news about Lanka
,
And with in a very short time jumped on the hill
where ,
For a long time Angadha and others
were anxiously waiting for his
arrival,
Who were valorous
like the serpent with raised hood ,and where,
The honey dripping
punnai flowers which could be
picked easily were there, were waiting for him.
6009. Those
victorious monkey warriors who
were wailing , understood ,
That the job for
which Hanuman went was accomplished and became extremely happy,
And like the kids
of birds in the cage
becoming happy on seeing their mother
bird,
Became happy and assumed a vey
happy looks.
6010.Some of those monkeys cried on seeing Hanuman , some of them,
Stood before him and shouted with joy , some came near and saluted him,
Some jumped and
danced, some surrounded him as if they
are going to swallow him,
Some of them hugged him
and some others lifted him and danced
carrying him.
6011.Some monkeys addressing Hanuman told ,”Oh great one ,
Your exuberant and happy face shows us
that you have ,
Brought good news
and so even earlier we have collected
tasty,
Honey as well as root for you. Please eat them and get rid of your tiredness,”
And then they brought all the leafy food which
they eat with desire.
6012. Those monkey warriors saw
very large number of wounds on
Hanuman’s,
Feet, chest ,
shoulders and head caused
by the enemy Rakshasas, using ,
Their sword ,
spears , rain of arrows by splitting
his body m, which were beyond counting,
And again and again seeing those wounds in proper order they left
deep breath as if they are dying.
6013Hanuman
saluted Angadha the son of
Vali , saluted Jambavan, the king of
bears,
And later doing
proper respect to all others as per
their merit , sat in a nearby
place,
And told them, “I am informing all of you who are here
,
The blessings of the consort of the clan chief Rama wishing you well.”
6014 When Hanuman told like this they all stood up and
with saluting hands m
And with a low bow
, with a desire to stand erect they said looking at Hanuman,
“Oh very strong one
, “Please tell . all events from
the time that you started
from here,
And till you came back and hearing that Hanuman
started telling.
6015, That Hanuman blessed with masculinity told
them clearly ,
In words they can understand the penance of chastity of Lady Sita,
Told how he got the brooch that
she was wearing as her identity,
And feeling shy did not talk about his own valour and his
fight ,
With those Asuras
who had long swords and about,
His burning the
entire city of Lanka.
6016. Those monkey warriors told him, “Even without your telling ,
The wounds in your body
does tell us about your fighting
the war there,
And your look also
told us about the victory that you achieved
there.
The huge smoke
told us about your setting fire to Lanka,
And we understood the power and prowess of the enemies there,
By the fact that
Lady Sita did not return with you “ and they ,
Asked “What should
be done by us at this juncture?”
6017. They all
unanimously decided that “
there is no need to think any further,
And what they
should immediately do was to
speedily go and inform,
Rama about seeing
of his divine wife and remove the great
sorrow,
Which was difficult to remove from his mind “ and so,
They decided the proper
thing would be to go from there
,
And immediately
got up and departed.
6018.Those monkeys
told Hanuman, “Oh great hero who
saved all of us ,
Who merit affection from you , The number of days set to search,
Lady Sita has been exceeded and the army which
waiting here ,
For your arrival became greatly sad and are not capable
to travel with speed,
And so to remove the
sorrow , you alone go with
great speed ?”,
Hanuman agreed
to that and speedily
travelled to the place Rama was
there.
6019.That very intelligent emissary , after completing a job, which would be ,
Difficult even for
Lord Shiva with a trident to do,
was returning ,
And we have told
all that happened in Lanka to our best of
ability,
And from now on
we will tell happenings to Rama in
Kishkinda.
6020.Whenever
Lord Rama with red eyes
fainted due to sorrow,
Of Parting with Sita
, Sugreeva , the son of Sun God who was in the mountains with clouds .
Would tell appropriate
words to console him
and Lord Rama ,
Like a man with many souls again was
seen like one who got back life.
6021. Those
who jumped and went to three directions without any blockages
Came back with a
firm news that they could
not see Lady Sita making
Rama who felt that being alive he was feeling sorry but
he kept himself alive ,
Putting all the hopes
on the very strong Hanuman .
6022.The gentleman
Rama who was drowning in the ocean of sorrow,
Looked at Sugreeva
, the son of Sun God said, “ our
efforts have not borne fruits,
And has ended
with never ending bad name to us”. And said the following.
6023.”Oh Sugreeva
with good character, Hanuman and other
monkeys,
Who have gone to southern direction in search of
Sita with scented black hairs,
In spite of the time fixed by us
is past , have not returned so
far,
What could have happened
ro those valorous ones who
have gone to search? Have they died?”
6024,”Thinking
that she has died and
feeling that instead of telling ,
The news of her to death to Rama , they might have preferred to die.
Have Hanuman and others
dead already? Or are they ,
Still spending their
time in searching in further
places?”
6025.”Did they
find out Ravana and others
and due to increasing anger ,
Started a huge war
with them and were killed by their illusion ?
Or have they
been put in a prison where there is no release?”
6026.”Did they think
that we have exceeded the time limit
fixed for us,
And have not
reached back the place of Rama,
and being scared ,
Of reaching here
back , sacrificing the feelings of joy and sorrow ,
Are they doing
difficult penance ? what other thing
happened to them? Please tell.” Said
Rama.
6027.When Rama was
asking Sugreeva like this ,
Hanuman was seen by them,
As if the Sun
God has arisen in the south and the
matchless Rama ,
With pretty and big hands
, with a pleased mind looked
properly.”
6028. Hanuman reached that place and without saluting the Divine feet of Rama,
Who was wearing
the heroic anklets , He
saluted the goddess Sita ,
Who left living on a
lotus flower and has been born
in this earth,
Towards the southern side where
she was there , by falling on
earth,
With his head and
hands touching the earth and praised Sita lying there.
6029. The intelligent Rama who could easily understand the truth by body language ,
After seeing the
actions of Hanuman with great
care and after understanding them,
Knew that Sita on
whose hair bees live is in a god
condition and with determination,
And that Hanuman has
seen her personally and her chastity is well preserved.
6030. Realizing
that the actions of Hanuman there,
is the suitable measure ,
To understand
the welfare of Lady Sita , Rama with his great wisdom
Clearly understood it
and with joy his shoulders
increased in size,
His lotus like eyes
shed tears of joy , his great sorrow deserted him,
And the love
that he had towards Sita also
increased.
6031,Hanuman looked at Hanuman and said in summarized
form to him , “Oh chief of devas
,
In Lanka which
is the city of south which is
surrounded by ocean,
Which had clear
and curling tides, I saw by my
eyes Lady Sita ,
Who is an ornament to chastity and so please remove from your mind ,
That doubt
whether she would have retained
her chastity,
And also remove
all the sorrow from your mind” and again started telling in detail.
6032”Oh Lord , my
great Goddess who is your consort is perfectly
suitable,
To the position of
your great wife , The daughter in
law of Dasaratha ,
Who was your father
and being the dear daughter of Janaka
, the king of Mithila,
Be pleased to hear
what I have to say further.”
6033.”Anything which
is similar to Gold is gold
itself and nothing else ,
And similarly she is who is like herself is herself and
not any one else,
She stands great
in patience and has given you the fame
that ,
Except you who is her husband , there
is no one similar to you,
And also gave me
who am simple, That there is no one except me who is like me.”
6034.”Sita who is
my mother has made your clan to be known by your name,
And the clan of
Janaka in which she is born alone to be known by her name,
And would give the
clan of the cruel Rakshasa Ravana to God of death,
And made the clan
of devas to live happily and made my
clan known by my name ,
What other great act
can that divine lady do anything
more?”
6035.Oh valorous one with great shoulders who holds the great bow , in the city of Lanka ,
Which is on a top of a mountain and is surrounded by
ocean with ebbing water ,
I did not see
that lady Sita living
and doing
the very great penance of chastity.
But what I saw was
her birth in great lineage , the character of great patience ,
And the great
quality of chastity which were
dancing together there.
6036.”You are in
the eyes of that lady at all times and always and also in her mind,
You are
there in each and every word that
she utters and you are
in
The incurable wounds created above her breasts by
the great and cruel God of love
,
Who without
stopping sends his flower arrows at her and ,
Would it be
proper to say that she is separated from her.”
6037.”Oh Lord That
lady who is the form of penance which
did penance is living ,
In the hermitage
made by your younger brother which
is placed,
In one side of the
city of Lanka , in the garden with golden
Karpaga trees ,
Where there is no
difference between the day and night .”
6038. “People say that “The Lord Brahma who was born on the
lotus flower
On the belly of
Lord Vishnu ,
Has cursed him that
if he touches a lady forcefully against her desire
,
He would die with his
body divided in to several
pieces in an unimaginable way,”
And due to being scared to touch the
pure and holy body of your
chaste wife ,
He had
carried her away along with the hermitage without touching her.”
6039.”Please realize the truth that he has not touched
her by observing,
That the world
created by Lord Brahma
has not broken down ,
The hood along
with the heads of Adhi Sesha has not
been torn ,
the ocean raising
up has not entered the earth , Sun
, moon,
And other shining
stars have not fallen down and
got destroyed ,
And Vedas and the
life recommended
By the Vedas have
not been destroyed Which are all
true .
6040.”Due to
greatness of the chastity of Sita
who is sad ,
Having been forced to part with you , she has attained
the greatness,
Which makes her suitable
to be saluted by all including.
The wives of Devas
and Goddess Uma who resides in
half of Shiva,
Became eligible to
occupy the head of that lord
and Goddess Lakshmi,
Who sits on the
lotus flower is now not suitable to
occupy his chest,
But became eligible to occupy on his thousand heads.”
6041.”I searched all over Lanka , reached
the palace of Ravana and
generally,
Saw all ladies wearing golden ear globes and
later entered in that moving cool garden,
And I saw there the Goddess like
Lady Sita and saw her,
Through my white
eyes which were filled with tide of tears.
6042.”Innumerable Rakshasis as well as
fearful crowd of ghosts ,
Were guarding her so that she did not have a chance to escape
,
And that lady Sita
who drove away her fear due to
her love towards you,
Was alone
and it looked as if “mercy” has taken
The form of a lady
and sitting there in that cruel prison
.”
6043.”When I was waiting for an opportune moment
to salute her ,
That Ravana who was wearing a garland and holding a bow,
Came there and
begged her in very many ways and saluted her.
Lady Sita did not
stand up and replied to him
with very harsh words ,
And hearing that ,
Ravana became angry and wanted to kill Sita.”
6044.”Oh lord,
then the strength of her chastity
, the greatness of your grace ,
And Dharma with
its greatness protected
the soul of Lady Sita ,
And That Ravana
ordering the Rakshasis to advice
her in general ,
Went to his place
and due to my reciting a powerful
chant all those Rakshasis slept.”
6045. “At that
time that Sita deciding to give up her
great life ,
Took hold of a creeper
and tied it on a branch of a
tree ,
And before she could
put that noose on her neck ,
The poor me , for stopping that went and saluted her feet,
And went on
chanting your name.”
6046.”That Sita
who had rain like tears from her cool eyes on her pretty and tender breasts ,
Hearing me chant your name suspected
that it was done by deceitful
Rakshasas,
And said to me
with joy “You have great mercy on me
and by repeating the name,
Of the black coloured Rama , you are giving me happiness
in the other world.”
6047.”Oh Lord , I
then told in a clear manner the
identifying incidents ,
That were told by you
and after verifying them , she understood that,
There is no lie in
my mind and when I showed her your signet ring
,
She thought that
it was like a medicine preventing
death at time of death.”
6048. “Oh Lord who has all types of wealth
, within a very short span of
time,
I saw two very contradictory events and they were , That Lady Sita,
Kept the signet ring given by me on her great breasts and ,
Due to the heat
caused by parting with you, that
ring got melted,
And due to the joy in understanding what I told, it
became solid again.”
6049,”That Sita after
getting the ring from me ,
thinking that it has lost its purity ,
By coming to the
country of cruel cheaters , using rain like tears from her eyes,
Washed it just
like it was with thousand pots of divine water, became sad ,
And kept quiet
not being able to
telling me anything . Her thin
body,
Became puffed up
and due to surprise she did not
close her eyes and left out a deep
breath.”
6050.”Oh Lord then
I who am your slave told all
your news after she parted with you,
In a very clear manner
and told her, “Oh peacock like lady
, since Rama did not know,
Where you were ,
it became so long “ and also told
her how sorrowing ,
You were after
parting from her and hearing that
, she left out a painful breath.”
6051. “After hearing
the state of affairs here as
they unfolded ,
She clearly told
me ,
about all the happenings that
happened there ,
And told , “I would
keep my life for one month only
and if my lord,
Does not want to save me by that time I would destroy my life”
And acted as if she
was saluting your divine feet.”
6052.That Hanuman
who would remain famous as long
as Vedas , Sastras ,
Good books and count of time remains , after
saluting the feet of Sita from there,
Took the Brooch of Sita
which was greater than any gem in the world ,
Which he had tied to his cloth and said, “She took this and gave me in my hand,
With happiness”,
and Said, “Oh very able one , please see this ,
So that your lotus like eyes
would be filled with joy” and
gave it to Rama.
6053.That brooch which entered in to the hands of Rama and to him,
It looked like the pretty hand of Sita which was held by him,
At the time of marriage
in front of the fire and due to
that ,
The love that was generated in his body slowly grew
,
His body became
hot and his depression
vanished.
6054. His hairs
vibrated, eyes shed copious
tears , chest and shoulder shook with
joy,
His body was covered with sweat , the pretty
lips folded inside
,
With his soul
coming in his body became slightly fat,
And who is there
who can understand that state of
Rama?
6055. Then the son
of Sun God Sugreeva looked at Rama and
told him,
“Oh lord as soon as we know that Lady Sita is in a
suitable position ,
To be brought here
“ and Rama told him” It
looks you are ,
Unnecessarily wasting time “ and as
soon as he told that ,
Sugreeva who had
pillar like
shoulders got up and started ordering.
6056.Sugreva told, By the time I say “A” , let all the
terrible armies ,
Should start from here.”
And those who play the drums of victory,
Played on huge drums in all places where
the army was camped ,
And those seventy Vellam of monkey army spread
like ,
The ocean with fast moving tides towards
the southern direction.
6057.All those monkey warriors who speedily departed with Hanuman,
Wearing the long heroic anklet telling them about the victorious Rakshasas,
Who were
cruel and were guarding
day and night the city of
Lanka,
Which was on top
of the mountain called Trikuta and,
About the fort
and security structures
around that great city ,
And they covered the long way to that place easily.
6058. Due their
way being long , along with the king of the monkeys ,
Rama and Lakshmana
who were following good path, went ahead,
And Those
willing army of monkeys which
accompanied them,
After spending the day time in long sweet gardens on the mountains,
Saw the ocean on the south on the twelfth day.
