Mandodari Reveals Every World Resting in the Limbs of Rama
Lanka Kanda, Doha 14ख
Doha 14ख · Movement 2 of 2
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Mandodari asks Ravana to trust what love and clear seeing have placed before her. Rama is not a mortal prince whose reach happened to cross from Suvela into the guarded palace.
The jewel of Raghu's lineage is Vishvarupa, the form of the universe itself. The Vedas contemplate whole worlds within each of his limbs, creation arranged through a body no boundary can contain.
Ravana's crown fell beneath one arrow from that cosmic person. To call him human is to mistake one visible gesture for the measure of the hand that made it. Mandodari begins to unfold the universal form before her husband, hoping immensity may enter where warning, tenderness, and omen have all been refused.
The arrow came from Suvela, but the arm that released it contains every world.
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बिस्वरुप रघुबंस मनि करहु बचन बिस्वासु। लोक कल्पना बेद कर अंग अंग प्रति जासु।।14।।
Trust my words: Rama, the jewel of Raghu's line, is the Vishvarupa, the cosmic form. The Vedas imagine entire worlds in each and every limb of his.