By Kambar (Kavichakravarthy Kamban)
Translated in English by P. R Ramachander
Kamba Ramayanam-Sundara Kandam 4 (Padalam 11)
11. Pasa Padalam Chapter on the rope. (Indrajit , the elder brother of Aksha comes and after a great battle ties Hanuman with Brahmastra drags him through the city.In Kamba Ramayana it says that Hanuman submitted to Brahmastra due to respect and since he wanted to see Ravana went along with Indrajit. In Valmiki Ramayana it is said that the Asuras tie Hanuman with a rope and because of that Hanuman is immediately freed from the tie.)
5717. When that very masculine Megha natha who got great fame by getting ,Great victory over Indra and destroyed his strength , heard about this, his cruel eyes ,Started shedding sparks of fire and he got enraged ,Sufficiently to make all worlds sorry and later destroy them.
5718. That matchless Indrajit due to the news that his younger brother,Who had the lustrous sharpened spear has been killed ,Felt as if his mind was burning , and breathing as if his soul was afire,Started for the war similar to Lord Shiva who burnt the three cities,By bending The Meru mountain as a bow and had divine luster.
5719. He , who by his valour touched the boundary of the sky,Got in to a big wheeled chariot drawn by one thousand two hundred ghosts.And the words of valour that he uttered , coming continuously from him,Made cracks in all the great directions and broke the universe.
5720. The heroic anklets and garlands that he wore as well as,The sound of drums accompanying him made even the thunder scared,And hearing that sound the king of Devas shivered for his life ,And his body was covered with sweat and he suffered due to great fear andThe trinity who were the God of gods deciding that war has neared its peak,And stopped the works that were being done by them.
5721. That Indrajit whose eyes got filled up as and when he thought ,Of the death of his younger brother, with tears running like a stream,Looked at his very strong bow , folded his lips and laughed with great anger.He thought “Did a monkey which roams on tree branches ,And does not have a stable life , kill my brother who has valour ,That will not bent? Due to that the fame of my father has gone down,”
5722. We do not have capacity to count the number of spear soldiers,Who can split the mountain in to two nor those archers who came in dense formation,Nor those soldiers who were armed with swords . The number of small eyed elephants,With rut water flowing on both sides which made the earth slushy was twelve thousand.The number of chariots in that army formation was also the same number.
5723. , Similarly the cavalry of the same size assembled there and ,When they joined, the Asura kings who held the swords of valour ,Also came and joined them and Indrajit who had enmity ,Flowing like a stream , immediately came and got in to his chariot ,And went inside the palace of Ravana having a pretty entrance .
5724. He fell on the feet of Ravana and wailed for the death ,Of his younger brother , and the very fearless Ravana ,Held both shoulders of Indrajit and hugged him ,And cried and became weak and the ladies of Asura clan,Who had long eyes like two swords , beat themselves on their belly,Wailed and swooned and Indrajit who was as strong as a lion ,Separated them and looked at his father and talked.
5725. “You are not deeply thinking about anything that does good to us,You experience whatever happens and then become sad because of it.Though you knew about the great strength of that cruel monkey,You went on sending rows and rows of Rakshasas asking them,To fight with that monkey and I think you have killed them all.”
5726. ”Oh my father , KImkaras, Jambumali , the faultless five commanders ,Who were all asuras wearing heroic anklets along with a part of our army ,Were all killed and not even one was able to return , Is it really a monkey?For I feel that is the same as the trinity of Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva .”
5727. “You have won over the prowess of the eight elephants of direction,You have won over the Kailasa mountain of Lord Shiva who burnt the three cities,You have won over the three worlds and you are now simply seeing that monkey,Which had killed Aksha kumara. Even after all this destruction ,If we say that we will go to the battle field and win over it ,That would be idle prattling. Would it be a wise decision?”
5728. ”Inspite of that sir, I would easily catch that monkey who does acts of valour ,In a very short time and so from now on you need not suffer any sorrow for that ,You would live long,” saying like this that Indrajit who imprisoned ,Lord Indra , the king of devas along with his fame , went to the battle field.
5729. He went along with chariots which went in a row , surrounded,By Umbrellas made of corals , with palanquins made of pearls ,Surrounded by cloud like black chariots made of black wood,With cruel elephants in rut looking like black rainy clouds ,And with white cowries which went like jumping horses.
5730. With conches booming , with big drums giving sound like thunder,With trees shaking due to cruel sound generated by Thilai and Kaduvai,The crowd of garlands and the dust making sky invisible .The umbrellas shiningly visible here and there like moon,And making the elephants of directions shiver with fear , he came.
5731. When the valorous heroes , who fixing several types of pipes like fire ,And were blowing them , did not find way to proceed further ,Seeing this Hanuman who was the emissary of Rama ,The lord of Dharma ,went to do penance leading life of sagesSaw this by his mind as well as eye and smiled thinkingAbout the war which was coming towards him.
5732. Indrajit came with the crowd of red umbrellas and garlands ,By the side of his chariot made of Gold , with ladies ,Who had fist like waist , similar to the branch of Karpaga trees of heaven and,Who had reddish mouth and who had hair decorated by scented flowersFanning with shaking cowries , and with instruments like horn ,Making great sound stealing the intestines of those hear them,
5733. They say that the number of the collection of garlands was hundred thousand,The sun shades made of peacock feathers and the faultless conches was ten thousand,And he came surrounded by Umbrellas of the colour of red , white , blue and greenSeveral lustrous multi coloured flags and crores of Indras and Sun Gods.
5734. With those Rakshasas who liked wars blowing very many horns made of gold ,Purified in the fire all together at the same time , keeping them on their mouth .And hearing that huge sound the people earth and heaven were startled and became tired ,And talking among themselves that the Rakshasas have become enthusiastic andThe time of final destruction has come near , came with desire to see the war.
5735. The division armed with well sharpened arrows , the division with,Fire spitting spears and the number of archers who can shoot the arrows well,And the ocean of Asuras armed with similar weapons ,and having musical instruments ,Like horn , conch and others joining together , the earth unable to bear the burden,Bent her back a little and Indrajit who was responsible ,For giving this pain to the world came to the war said the golden symbols.
5736. The long shields made of tiger’s hide like the ocean of horses which were fighting ,Went up to the Devas making even the god of death scared .And they got ready their big bows and the rain of arrows,Which emanated from there. Similar to the ocean on full moon days,Neared the arch built in world of Devas as if they touched them,
5737. Due to the playing of drums like Thadavai maram, Chagadai parat,And thimilai parai all the stars fell down similar to flowers falling from the tree,And the great sound made by those heroes who were like the killer tigers,Along with the sound of long bells tied on the neck of the elephant filled up the world.
5738. They readied the arrows which has known wounds earlier,In their eighty thousand crores of bows and started sending them,And not only that that arch which was touching the sky vanished,And Hanuman who was praised by the worlds became one who lived in that great war.
5739. The army that was coming to fight with very valorous Hanuman Consisted of twenty Vellam of sword bearing army , the army ,That fought with the Vel numbered to twelve crores,And those who fought with spear were one vellam .
5740. Horses jumping and flying like a ball , Chariots in dense formation,Going faster than the mind , and elephants with black colour like night ,Were coming in such a way that dust raided by them hid the world of the moon.
5741. , The sound of instruments like conch , flat drums , chachari and chinnam,Were heard everywhere , The big drums raised a noise like thunder ,The cruel sound of Stones filled up the sky and,The Asuras came with great speed , seething with anger.
5742. All places of horses which were visible were crowding,In all directions collections of chariots were crowding ,In all places there were only black cloud like elephants,And in all places those who were shouting were the asuras.
5743. The horses which were attached to the chariot were two hundred crores,The asuras without guard who were included were as if another eon has arrived,And besides those asuras who were helping other soldiers were ten Vellams.
5744. Those asuras who were surrounding that Cheating Indrajit were ,One hundred vellums of bow holding archers, the number of soldiers,Who hold the bow and capable of jumping and rushing was beyond counting,And similar was the case of elephants with a hole in their trunk.
5745. That monkey chief whose valour could make enemies faint ,Seeing such a large army of that Indrajit,Turned to the north and saluted Lord Rama and stood there,With very good happiness visible in his face.
5746. Seeing that ocean of Asuras who seem to say,There is no place in all the seven worlds for them to occupy,And who stood in a dense formation and were coming towards him,Hanuman called them as if a cock is calling them.
5747. When Hanuman with great joy was calling them ,Understanding what that intelligent monkey meant Te Asuras who had a body of black colour ,Sent arrows at him, many of which fell in the ocean.
5748. Since the form of the lion like Indrajit was completely covered by the dust Not able to see him , Hanuman , examined everywhere found him out ,And addressing him started telling the following words.
5749. That Hanuman who was an expert in the endless knowledge ,Which he had heard , looking at the huge crowd of elephants surrounding Indrajit,To protect him , also saw the white royal umbrella that usually preceded Indra,Became happy knowing that Indrajit was there only and stood smiling.
5750. Hanuman becoming joyous at seeing Indrajit departing ,With great anger called , “Oh Indrajit who is cruel and strong ,Please do come to the war with great speed.”,And one of them told him that, “This is Indrajit.”
5751. Hearing that , Hanuman with shoulders like the mountain,Said, “Good, that is Good” and wanted to fight the war ,And at this time the army of Indrajit reached that arch.
5752. The entire army of Asuras who were capable of sinking the earth,Making one feel that there is no more space in all the seven worlds,Started like the raising ocean at the time of deluge and Hanuman called them for war.
5753. When the army approached from all directions making ,The sun, moon and stars , fall down like flowers and seeing them,Hanuman thought ,”If the biggest strength of them is this Asura army,Which is marching towards me , they can not only win Indra but all the seven worlds.”
5754. That army of black coloured Asuras , similar to , the great darkness ,Which was defeated by Sun God doing great penance and assuming ,Many black forms who won the rays of Sun God from him And wore them as ornaments, as a sign of their victory , Along with shining ornaments that they were wearing ,And holding swords which had gone deep in to the bodies of enemies,And thereby getting a stain of flesh , which were also shining ,And were capable of giving victory in war , possibly feelingThat the earth is not sufficient for them joined the army of Indrajit.
5755. The pretty chariots with wheels , horses, foot soldiers ,Angry elephants with red eyes and wearing ornamental masks,And the entire Asura army that have assembled there , like ,The rising sea at the time of deluge accompanied Indrajit ,And he whose valour cannot be divided among others,Shined separately standing in the middle of the huge army ,And was similar to the matchless , very big Meru mountain.
5756. Indrajit who went to the war like this , though he had fameOf winning over the eight directions and the three worlds ,Because he was a great hero firmly established in his valour,Seeing that Hanuman who was looking like an ocean ,And who had done great valorous act , appreciated him,Saying, “His valour is indeed great” and became happy.All those who saw it felt scared , thinking about what would happen.
5757. That Indrajit wearing ornaments of the shape of leaf , saw that great battle field,And thought that it was like a different world , with very many cruel weapons,Floating in the rivers of blood from the big corpses of those Asura who died there,And along with immeasurable number of mountains , oceans,Rivers and forests was looking like another world which is wide .
5758. He felt slight sorrow in his mind which had never suffered from sorrow ,And thought that “All the Asura warriors , who were like a completely full ocean,Who had measureless greatness and who were matchless in their valour ,Had died here.. There is only one monkey that is seen to be here,And if Rama comes and wages a war at us along with similar monkeys,With which army can we fight with him and win over him?”
5759. Those who were as dear as his eyes , those who were like his soul,Who with the weapons selected by them were capable of protecting their people,Who had greatness which is beyond imagination , have all died due to Hanuman,And seeing several Asura warriors who were lying there on the battle field ,Indrajit got angry, folded his lips and felt that his mind was boiling ,Like introducing a stick in to the never healing wound.
5760. Indra jit said , “If the insult that was meted to my aunt in the forest ,Killing of Khara and the sorrow due to killing of my younger brother Aksha kumara ,And other insults have been caused by just two men and a monkey ,The valour within me is not pretty , What a great surprise?”
5761. With a greatly suffering soul, with the colour of fire , when Indrajit was going ,Through the path full of mountains of corpses which were impeding his progress,And which cannot be pulled out saw the dead body of his younger brother,Who was rubbed out by Hanuman , with his angry red eyes,Which was shining like copper greatly heated in fire, with a very angry mind.
5762. Seeing the body of his brother whose form has been altered ,Lying in the blood flow similar to Dharukasura and similar , to the body Of Hiranya,Which was made in to a paste by the matchless Lord Narasimha by his sharp nails ,His chariot shook and became unstable , he let fall the valorous bow that he was holding ,And blood and tears from his red eyes showing enmity which was also spitting fire ,And That Indrajit stood there letting out hot tortured breath,
5763. ,”Oh my dear , Even the god of death getting scared of the great anger , Of your father who holds a cruel and sharp spear , cannot take away your soul,Also all those who live in different worlds would be scared to hide you,How is it that you easily left us and which world have you gone to?” Wailed Indrajit.
5764. That Indrajit unable bear the sorrow due to the death of his sibling,Became jaded , weak and sad due to the love he had towards his younger brother,But what was most prominent was his anger which had the property of ebbing out,And like hitting a nail over another nail already pushed in , pushes that nail further,His anger pushed inside the great sorrow that he had in his mind, what a surprise?”
5765. When these things were happening there , the very masculine Hanuman ,Wearing a heroic anklet who was like Lord Shiva who burnt the three cities ,With great anger saw Indrajit the son Of Ravana , who was coming towards him,Who was riding on chariot similar to Lord Sun riding on a chariot.
5766. ”is it not true that I have won over some Asuras earlier? This person,Has been summoned here speedily by either by my defeat or victory,And one of them will definitely happen here. This one is surely Indrajit.” Hanuman thought.
5767. ”If this Indrajit wearing a well scented flower garland who is like a bull,Mad with valour is killed by me , that would cause the death of Ravana also,”Thinking like this further, Ravana thinking that he would surely die ,Would take the faultless and chaste Sita and give her to Rama ,And not only that all these Asuras would lose their pride and lose their cruelty.”
5768. ”If I can possibly kill this lustrous Indrajit , there would be more than,One benefit out of that “Indra would not be sad any more ,There would not be any security to this Lanka of Asuras ,And I would also win over Ravana and uproot him.”
5769. When Hanuman was thinking like that and standing there,The army of Asuras , elephants, chariots and horses ,Came before Indrajit who had won the three worlds , three times ,And entered Lanka as a victorious Hero , and created a huge sound,That very big Hanuman becoming angry ,Uprooted a huge tree and assumed a huge form.
5770. Some of those elephants in that Asura army were kicked by Hanuman,Some elephants rolled , some of them were stamped by the feet of Hanuman,Some elephants fell down , Some elephants fell on each other and got buried,Some elephants became upside down , some were killed in the war ,And some elephants fell down with their feet upwards.
5771. Some chariot collections were completely destroyed ,In case of some , many parts were broken , some lost their strength ,And got destroyed , some chariots fell down with their joints broken,Some of them got their axles broken and fell down , some became dust ,Some were crushed and fell down and some fell down on earth.
5772. The heads of the horses got crushed , some lost their eye balls ,Some got their strong legs broken , some fell down with a broken back,Some wearing garland of bells got their chest crushed ,Some vomited blood , some had their hoofs wearing shiny,Golden anklets broken and in some their bent necks got broken.
5773. The Asura soldiers became those who were caught by Hanuman,Who had their bodies broken, who had their big shoulders scattered,Who had their heads broken , who had been bitten all over their body,Who lost their necks , who were slapped and who were greatly scared.
5774. The arrows from the well bent cruel bows and many ,Of the very cruel weapons were sent by the Asuras ,And had fallen on that very Valorous Hanuman ,Like the steel rod well heated in fire not burning the stone of black smith ,All those which hit Hanuman did not cause any harm and went away with sparks.
5775. The burning arrows that were sent by Indrajit on Hanuman ,Who had rising great anger , and those arrows produced flame and smoke ,But did not cause any harm to the body of Hanuman and went away,Seeing which Indrajit laughed with anger and devas who saw it ,Were worried as to what will happen and their eyes became sad.
5776. When the chariots , horses and Asuras got scattered ,And fell on the ground , the valorous Indrajit with fat shoulders,Who was standing all alone among the dead Asuras ,With increasing smile and anger went to war ,With Hanuman who was calling everybody, “Please come, Please come.”
5777. The Asura Indrajit twanged the string of his bow with his fingers ,Which increased the shivering of the head of Indra, with the collection of ,Huge thunders in the widely dispersed clouds of the sky shivering ,Due to fear and making the thousand headed Adhi sesha,Who is a long serpent who always carries the world , shiver.
5778. Hanuman who was the emissary of the God who rules over all beings,Reacting to that sound slapped his big shoulders and shouted a war cry,Which could be told as splitting the universe , which powdered the mountains,.Which split the long earth , which split the directions and,Which broke the string tied to the bow of Indrajit.
5779. Indrajit berating him and exhibiting his own valour told Hanuman,“You are very able , there is none in the world equal to you,In the great strength you are different from others and stronger than them,But today will soon become the last and final day of your life.”
5780. Hanuman in return said, “Oh cruel Asura, I have come here with a trick,To put an end to your lives , to put an end to your policy,Of troubling people , to put an end to the sinful act of yours,To put an end to your weapons like sword and because of that,The power of my shoulders would never get reduced.”
5781. Hearing that Indrajit thinking that ‘I will put an end to your wish”Sent very big and sharp arrows which were more powerful than Vajrayudha and they ,Hit Hanuman on his chest and head ,made new blood flow from them, making Devas scared.
5782. That Hanuman became greatly enraged , further increased his body ,Not thinking that the height of sky was not sufficient and assumed a super form,Which was like the fame of Rama who obeying the words of his step mother ,And gave away all the world which was surrounded by the ocean,With folding high waves to his younger brother and stood firmly in Dharma.
5783That Indrajit with very powerful shoulders who imprisoned , tied and Dragged Indra ,The lord of limitless worlds including the ten directions looked at Hanuman ,But was able to see a small part of his form and unable to see his full form,Became perplexed , confused , startled and surprised.
5784. That Hanuman who had assumed that huge super form ., extended ,His huge hands in his front side , prevented the arrows sent by Indrajit ,From striking him caught them and threw it back on Indrajit ,And slapped the ghosts pulling his chariot as well as his charioteer and killed them,
5785. At this stage , with the charioteer brought another chariot ,Which travels with the speed of great wind at deluge , that Indrajit,Jumped and got in to that chariot , using arrows which were equal,To several divine wheels covered with arrows the entire body of Hanuman ,Who had a long life span and had great strength in warfare.
5786. That victorious Hanuman shook his body and made fall on the ground ,All the arrows sent by Indrajit which had hit his chest , jumped on his chariot,Caught the huge bow he had used in winning all the world several times,Snatched it from him , brought it out and broke it .
5787. Even before the sound of the breaking of the bow ceased ,Indrajit ,For continuing the war used a sword called Vajrayudha which was ,Used by the angry Devendra to cut the wings of big mountains,And which was given to him as tribute and took it in his hand.
5788. That Indrajit , the son of Ravana who had matchless great anger,Send at a single strike, hundred hundreds of arrows which were the best in the war Speedily by bending his great bow , and that great hero Hanuman,Who was emissary of Rama , getting several wounds in his body got little tired.
5789. Those devas who were shouting with joy earlier , seeing Hanuman getting tired,Became sad and lost their wisdom and Hanuman who saw this speedily becoming all right ,Took a huge tree in his pretty hands and broke in to pieces , all the arrows being ,Rained at him by Indrajit , rotated that tree and beat strongly Indrajit ,Who was wearing a great crown that was made by gold and gems.
5790. That Indrajit who had earlier achieved victory over Devas ,AS soon as that huge tree hit has head wearing the crown,Bled copiously from his head which washed his crown ,And made the shining rays from it properly visible ,And he became greatly tired and his body shivered.
5791. That Indrajit who was standing there with tiresomeness ,As soon as he started properly thinking , bit his teeth ,Which were like the crescent of the moon,Send one thousand arrows which were similar on Hanuman,Making the Devas and Sages worried and making Hanuman shivering.
5792. Those cruel arrows sent by Indrajit thus went and pressed ,The chest and hands of Hanuman , who with anger as well as hatred ,Went with greater speed than the arrows sent by Rama , who is an expert,Using his great bow and picked up Indrajit along with his chariot ,And threw it and made greatly tumultuous sound.
5793. That Indrajit who is a very strong enemy beyond thought ,Due to being thrown out by Hanuman fell at the edge of chariot path of the sky,And came out with blood flowing on him with the scent of the flesh,Coming and collecting below the lower eyelid and fell on the floor .
5794. Even before that Indrajit who had teeth which resemble lightning ,Fell on the floor , he rose up from there and reached the sky ,And in the meanwhile Hanuman with a long form ,Within a time it takes for a black gram to roll kicked ,And destroyed all the gem studded crowd of chariots ,Of the army of Indrajit and destroyed all of them.
5795. Thart Indrajit who did not have another chariot to ride ,And also did not have the power to stand before Hanuman,Changing himself due to his fire like great anger ,Travelled on the sky and since he did not have any other option,Took the courage to the evil deed of sending the matchless ,Weapon of Lord Brahma called Brahmastra.
5796. After using faultless forms of worships using flowers ,And offering flower coloured offerings , lamps and incense ,He performed flower offering to Brahmastra , took that Brahmastra ,Of Lord Brahma who created all gods and all the worlds ,And was living in the place of Lord Vishnu and took it in his hand.
5797. After taking like that Brahmastra in his hand , he kept it,On the string of big and cruel bow , aimed at the shoulder of Hanuman,And sent it making the earth tremble , with directions shiver with fear ,With moon in the sky getting scared and also making Meru mountain shiver.
5798. That great arrow which cannot be controlled by any one ,Taking the form of king of cruel serpents who spit out fire ,And making even Garuda who wanted to cut him scared ,Securely tied the very huge shoulders of Hanuman.
5799. When the weapon of Lord Brahma tied the very strong body of Hanuman ,That great Hanuman , similar to the cool moon along with the serpent falling at time of deluge,From the sky along with the tears of God of Dharma who was following him and the arch fell down.
5800. That Hanuman who had fallen down understanding that Brahmastra had hit him,,Feeling it is not proper to insult it and move away , closed his eyes ,And acted as if he was under its control and Indrajit thinking ,That his strength is finished and came near Hanuman.
5801. When Indrajit came near Hanuman like this , those Asuras, Page 704.Who were earlier scared to fight with him and saved their life by running away,To all the four directions , who were waiting to see him getting exhausted ,And who had shining teeth surrounded Hanuman from all the four sides ,Pulled that Brahmastra which had attached to his body like a serpent in a hole ,Shouted with a very loud voice and chided Lord Hanuman.
5802. That big city of Lanka thinking that the strength of the monkey has been destroyed.Which was shouting in a loud voice was similar to the ocean with beating tides,From all sides that Brahmastra was looking like the serpent Vasuki ,The Asuras were looking like Devas and Hanuman looked like Mandara mountain.
5803. That very angry serpent like arrow , tied the golden body of Hanuman tightly ,And that Hanuman who was the only protector of God of Dharma in that city,Was looking like the Meru mountain , which was tied by Adhi Sesha,At a time when the huge wind was blowing , when he was shining.
5804. Males and females of the city came and shouted with loud voice,And went on shouting in the surroundings, sky and in all the four directions,And there was limit to the their joy at that time , which was like the time,When the city celebrated Indrajit tying Indra and bringing him there.
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About Kavichakravarthy Kamban
Historians place him in the 9th century CE, But surely Kamban belongs to the third great wave of Tamizh literature that started with the Sangam period (dated before the Common Era), followed by the widespread impact of Bhakti literature of the Alwars (vaishnavite saints) & Nayanamars (shaivaite saints). Kamban Authored Ramanaya in Tamil…Known as Kamba Ramayanam..
Kambar has been the milestone for the Tamil scholars that none had reached. He was also known as “Kamba Naatazhvar” at his time. Many Tamil authors from the modern world have written the books on the poet Kamban.
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Kambar or Kavichakravarthy Kamban (1180–1250) was a medieval Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana.
Valmiki Ramayana and Kamba Ramayanam are two versions of Ramayana written in the Sanskrit and Tamil languages respectively. … Kamba Ramayanam is originally called as Ramavataram. Although Valmiki Ramayana is the original version of the story of Rama, Kamba Ramayana is believed to be based on the work by Valmiki.
The Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century. Based on Valmiki’s Ramayana (which is in Sanskrit), the story describes the life of King Rama of Ayodhya.
The book is divided into six chapters, called Kandam in Tamil. The Kandams are further divided into 123 sections called Padalam (படலம்) in Tamil. These 123 sections contain approximately 12,000 verses of the epic.