Rama Turns Kumbhakarna's Mountains to Dust and Streaks the Giant With Blood
Lanka Kanda, Chaupai 69
Doha 69 · Movement 1 of 2
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Kumbhakarna surveys the field and sees the demon army destroyed. Fury fills the hero of immense strength, and his roar rolls out like a lion's. He uproots mountains and casts them wherever vanara champions stand.
Rama meets each descending mass with arrows and reduces stone to dust before it reaches the host. Then Raghunayak draws again and sends terrible shafts through the giant's body. They enter the dark immensity and emerge from the farther side like lightning passing into cloud.
Blood streams down Kumbhakarna until he resembles a mountain of black collyrium crossed by channels of red ochre. Bears and monkeys see him stagger and rush near, believing the opening has come. The wounded giant looks upon their charge and laughs. Even pierced through by Rama, he remains vast enough to turn apparent weakness into another terror.
Rama writes lightning through the dark mountain of Kumbhakarna, and the wounded mountain laughs at those who approach.
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कुंभकरन मन दीख बिचारी। हति धन माझ निसाचर धारी।। भा अति क्रुद्ध महाबल बीरा। कियो मृगनायक नाद गँभीरा।। कोपि महीधर लेइ उपारी। डारइ जहँ मर्कट भट भारी।। आवत देखि सैल प्रभू भारे। सरन्हि काटि रज सम करि डारे।।। पुनि धनु तानि कोपि रघुनायक। छाँड़े अति कराल बहु सायक।। तनु महुँ प्रबिसि निसरि सर जाहीं। जिमि दामिनि घन माझ समाहीं।। सोनित स्त्रवत सोह तन कारे। जनु कज्जल गिरि गेरु पनारे।। बिकल बिलोकि भालु कपि धाए। बिहँसा जबहिं निकट कपि आए।।
Kumbhakarna surveyed the field with care and saw his demon army being slaughtered all around. That hero of immense strength blazed with fury and let forth a deep roar like the king of beasts. In his rage he uprooted mountains and hurled them wherever the mighty monkey warriors stood. Seeing the great boulders hurtling toward them, the Lord cut them with His arrows and reduced them to dust. Then Raghunayak drew His bow in anger and released many terrible arrows. The shafts pierced through the giant's body and emerged from the other side, like lightning vanishing into a mass of clouds. Blood streaming from his dark body, he gleamed like a mountain of kajjal streaked with red ochre. Seeing him stagger, the bears and monkeys charged forward, but when they drew near, the giant only laughed.