By Kambar (Kavichakravarthy Kamban)
Translated in English by P. R Ramachander
Kamba Ramayanam-Yudha Kandam 1 (Padalam 2)
2. Ravanana Mandira Padalam
Chapter on the council meeting of Ravana,
(Ravana holds a council meeting. He is advised by most of his misters as well as Indrajit , to attack the enemy , wherever they are .Vibheeshana , the brother of Ravana tells him that it would be foolish to attack Rama as he is incarnation of Lord Vishnu and due to the fact Ravana can be killed by men . Ravana laughs at him. In Vamiki Ramayana there is a scholastic introduction given by Ravana about the need for consultation, which is missing in Kamba Ramayana. )
6071,When Ravana ordered Lord Brahma who was born on a flower,To repair the pretty city of Lanka in such a way that it is prettiest in the three worlds,And as per the orders of Lord Brahma , Viswakarma , the architect of the Devas ,Within a very short time remodeled it in such a way that even Devas were fascinated.
6072. That Ravana who was wearing the heroic anklet looked at his great city, Made by gold and gems and also the city of the devas and ,Realizing that it was looking prettier than earlier , became happy and lost his anger.
6073. That primeval and matchless Lord Brahma who was born earlier to the world,Instructed Viswakarma on the rules of beauty and made that city very pretty,And for Brahma who destroys and creates all the fourteen worlds several times,Is there any action that is impossible to him?
6074. After inspecting thoroughly that great pretty divine city ,Ravana who wore heroic anklets , after respecting Brahma as per rules,And after gifting several rare things to that architect of Devas ,Told both of them, “you both may now go back to your places.”
6075. After that in the council hall made using thousands of thousand of,Manikhya gems of very great luster , Which was very pretty ,Ravana occupied joyfully a throne supported by lions.
6076. That Ravana wearing a waving garland and fanned by the deva maidens ,Using cowries, sat there with numberless relatives ,Elder and wise ministers who were experts in counseling ,And the commanders of his ocean like army.
6077. He first ordered the sages , the devas and all others who are not Asuras ,To go away from the council hall and also ordered ladies with decorated braids, And youngsters who had not matured in wisdom to go away from there,And he who could do any action that he desired , sat along with others.
6078. That Ravana who had the victorious wheel of kingship,Even avoided the presence of bee and wind in that hall,And invited only learned people , old friends , close relatives,Very cultured people , great counselors who were very close to him,And surrounded by all of them sat in the great council hall.
6079. Even among his relatives who were very helpful to him,Though they were very learned , though they were suitable,To participate in masculine acts , he sent away ,All of them except people like his sons and brothers.
6080. Though the people of all the world join together ,To prevent them , he made valorous people to stand as security ,And due to that even the birds and animals with speed ,Were scared to move even a little and,How else can we describe the valour of those who stand guard.
6081. Ravana told them, “If my great city is destroyed by a mere monkey,What else can bring my respect down? My rule ,And my strength appears to be ridiculously bad “Said Ravana addressing his councilors.
6082. ”One monkey started burning it and this great city with flags,Was completely destroyed, many relatives and friends died,Insult spread everywhere and my body was helpless on this throne.”
6083. ”In the wells of the city blood was oozing out instead of water,The fire set in the city by Hanuman has still not been put out,The hairs of ladies of Lanka usually having perfume of Sandal and Akil ,Is giving out bad smell and we are all experiencing it.
6084. ”Even if we have not done anything , we are not able to hear that,The monkey which came here for war has been killed,And those though we are born, but only got said,That we are not really born and have been drowned ,In the ocean of bad name, What shall we do now?”
6085. When Ravana told like this , the commander of the army Prahastha,Who had a heart full of deceit stood up and saluted Ravana and said,“I have to tell you some thing. Please hear it completely from me.”
6086. ”Oh Lord whose mind realizes the good as well as bad ,I have already told you that, after deceiving those men, And abducting Sita with lustrous forehead and ,Tender feet applied with red colour , is an act that ,Was done by those who are scared of them,But you did not realize that it was acceptable.”
6087. ”Those thieves who killed valorous persons like Khara,And who cut of the nose of your sister with spread out hair,Were the people who insulted you should have been killed then itself,Having not done that possibly now you are repenting for it.”
6088. ”Those thieves who wore flower garlands frequented by bees,Who were fit to be punished, would not be tolerated ,By kings ruling the earth and would such kings ,Who had strength to destroy their prowess ,Live saluting such enemies ?”
6089. ”Please tell me whether you became the matchless leader of the three worlds,By destroying victory , valour and prowess of those angry devas as well as Asuras ,By waging war against those enemies or by tolerating them peacefully?”
6090. ”Oh king who was born for making our clan as great ,If we are only sitting in the city of Lanka and enjoy the sweet life without ,Killing those enemies by approaching them and make them never return,Would it stop with hands of monkeys, even mosquitoes would come fight with us,And then would we wage a war against them and get victory?”
6091. ”Let us pursue that monkey which destroyed Lanka and destroy ,Those men who sent it here and remove the bad name which came to us.But instead if we show only hatred in words and thought ,Then our strength will progressively reduce” said he in very clear words.
6092. After the army commander told like this , one minister called Mahodara ,Who had mountain like shoulders and who had eyes like raging fire,Stood up and said , “after hearing the words of the commander ,After proper research , please also hear what I have to say.”
6093. ”Oh very strong one, even devas were scared of you and have submitted to you,The Yakshas have lost their power, the faultless Asuras have lost their pride ,And the trinity whom the world salutes, unable to face you are avoiding you.”
6094. ”The God of death who can alter the souls of any strong being,Who realizes your natural strength has been defeated by you ,And is obeying your orders in all seriousness .What other greatness can be there?”
6095. ”Oh Lord who shouted victoriously after lifting the silver mountain,Along with Lord Shiva who rides on the bull , so that it touches the sky,You are comparing the strength of your shoulders ,AS well of that of ours to a monkey who lives on the twigs of a forest.”
6096. ”Oh Lord , Who has been able to see those who were not seen by you,In the earth, heaven and in all other worlds of the universe? And among ,Those who have seen , who has got the strength to approach you ,Can those who did not bother about you but were killed by you be counted?”
6097. “There is no sorrow worth reporting here?.If you permit me to go for war,I would uproot the entire clan of monkeys , kill those men who should be suppressed,And would complexly remove all your enemies” said he with determination.
6098. When that leader Mahodhara completed his talk VajradandhaWho had eyes like sun god which shed rain of blood , though,What he intended to tell was not having any importance told with speed.
6099. “After this let us go and grind those men and monkeys ,By our hands and kill them and also eat their bodies” and asked,“You should send us and keep quite. Do you have any suspicion on us ?”
6100. ”I have been killing completely your enemies in whichever world they are ,As per your order and have been working as your slave . Is it because,I have failed that you have not entrusted this job of war with me?”
6101. Dunmukha addressing Vajradantha told “Stop, stop,Did you salute Ravana and told before me such words,Like a poor man? Do you think we would keep quite ?”And then he saluted Ravana who is the king ,And with great anger started telling the following words.
6102. ”Compared to Ravana, the elephants of directions lost their strength,The devas got defeated and lost their power,even the Kailasa ,Mountain where the three eyed Lord Shiva lives lost its strength.Only men and monkeys seem to be strong,Funny That the strength of Ravana the Lord of Lanka is wonderful?”
6103. ”Oh matchless Lord who wears the jingling anklets, the job,Of the weak people is to think about the future and ,Do research about its implications, If the enemies ,Who like our decision are strong enough , would we avoid,Them due to the great love that we have towards our soul?”
6104. ”Oh protector of the clan of Asuras , the counseling that we are doing now, Deals about the men and monkeys who by nature wander about on earth,And they have been created as food for us and if,We are scared about our food , who can be more valorous than us?”
6105. ” The job of coming here , setting fire to it ,Waging war and killing those who oppose it ,And later escaping from here became a monkey job,And for us Asuras , would crossing the ocean,By swimming the ocean become a difficult job?”
6106. “Those who can come to our places and who can understand,The security of our town , our strength , the breath of our army,Who can do very cruel battle are those who have fought with us,And some how escaped with life and there are few people in this world like that.”
6107. ”After clear thinking of the matching aspects , those who want to win over ,Those things which gave us stability and who seek tricks for winning them,WE have to better go to the places where our enemies are located,And destroy all of them till they die and that would be the better strategy,”Said he in a firm manner so that Ravana could understand.
6108. Another Asura called Mahaparswa who is of matchless strength,Saluted Dunmukha in front of Ravana himself asking him to stop,And said, “Suppose we hold a council meeting as regards the acts of a monkey,What respect would be left for us?Is anger and strength ,Only available in monkeys? Don’t we have it “
6109. ”Those who went earlier to the war got destroyed,Because they lacked strength and does that mean that strength ,Of Asuras ends with them and just because a monkey ,And lighted fire to the city , has the valour of Asuras also got cooked.”
6110. ”if some men send a monkey here and that monkey ,After reaching this place set fire to the city and if the people,Of the Asura army think about it and get sad , Is there a need,For me to tell what is going to happen in future over here?”
6111. That Mahaparswa who had burning eyes by thinking of the enemy ,“I agreed to hear all of you speak one by one about it and I do not think,There is any need to think further but go and kill the monkey,Along with those men and eat all of them ,And I do not think there is a need to think differently .”
6112. , One Asura called Pisacha who wore the heroic anklet,Who in form was an Asura but had the nature of fire ,Asked what the king is going to do , and he became ashamed ,By the fact that Lanka was destroyed by a monkey and ,We would go to different directions and ,Some how mange to live in those places.
6113. Another Asura called Surya Sathru told “if our great king,Is going to discuss this matter with all of us , from this aspect,The better people would be only men and,We asuras are inferior compared to them “ with sorrow.
6114. One Asura called Yajna Shatru said , “if this meeting,Has taken place because of men , Is there a need to talk,About the greatness of the rules of asuras and their strength “ and felt ashamed .
6115. Besides these Doomraksha with a smoky eye said, “Even fighting ,With Lord Shiva who is of red colour like our hair and who is armed with a trident ,Would make the fame of our valour in to a laughing stock and what of fighting,With men who have crowd of monkeys as their army? And since there is no other go,It is better to fight a war with them.” And he rose up in very great anger.
6116. Other Asura heroes whose mind was boiling like the cobras that live,In ant hills after hearing the words of Dhoomraksha agreed with what he said,And said, “there is no need to any more think about it”,And started talking various things as per their thoughts.
6117. The Asura called Kumbhakarna after stopping all those Rakshasas,With great strength and anger and telling them that they who were young were talking,Without bothering about results, went near the Lord of the Asura clan and said,“If you think that as a younger brother I would do only good to you ,I would tell you that which is good for you” and started telling the following.
6113. ”Oh elder brother you have established yourself as greatest ,In the clan of Lord Brahma and you have great knowledge ,Of thousand , thousand Vedas and in spite of that do evil acts ,Only with great liking and do you think that , what has been sent by fate ,To us would stop with this and would not proceed any due to further.”
6114. ”The nature of rule has been destroyed and you became sad ,At the destruction of the city which was looking like a picture.Is due to your act of abducting the wife of a person not belonging to our clan,And keeping her in prison , a proper act ?Among the sins,That can be committed is there a greater sin than this?”
6120. “You became ashamed thinking that the pretty city was destroyed,And when your wives who were like your own soul were looking at you.With a sweet smile , you were falling at the pretty feet ,Of the wife of some one else , and her saying “no” to you is possibly an act of fame .
6121. ”Oh lord of the Asura clan , Without mercy you kidnapped a lady,Who is the wife of some one else and who was doing penance ,Which is a cruel act, not bothering about the Veda’s code of conduct that you have learned,And from the day you imprisoned her , the fame of Asuras started diminishing ,Expecting to get fame by performing silly acts , is not sign of wisdom.”
6122. ”We would imprison a faultless wife of some one else in a pretty prison,And we would also want to get faultless fame . What you talk with pride ,Are words of valour but in the middle what you desire is passion ,And you get scared of men , and our victory seems to be great.”
6123. ,”Oh great king , You have not done good acts done by great people ,And you have brought great insult to the clan of great sage Pulasthya,If we now send Sita decorating her hair with honey dripping flowers,To Rama , it would be established that we are weaklings , but ,If we are killed by those men in war , bad name would not come to us.
6124. “In the forest dense with trees, Rama who was standing alone ,By the strength of his bow destroyed the entire army accompanying Kara ,Won over Kara and Rama’s strength does not end here ,He will destroy us and our army completely .Can there be a better thing than that.
6125. ”If those men win over us or if we do not wage a war on them,And go to the place they are without deviating , torture them ,Kill them and eat them , devas would join with those enemy men,And all the beings of the seven worlds also would join with them.
6126. ”Before their huge army of those enemies enter this place ,WE have to cross the sea within a day and completely uproot,Those men as well as monkeys so that they are unable,To go anywhere from there, is the act that we have to do immediately.”
6127. “oh son , what you told is good , I also thought in the same way ,And further thinking about is wrong .We would kill all our enemies,And return back from there and so order our armies with flag,To start immediately . “ said Ravana.
6128. When Ravana told like this , his son Indrajit ,Laughed with great anger and said, “Oh king of royal dynasty,Are you the one who is going with speed along with army ,And fight with those silly men with great anger and return back?My valour is very great “ and then he told the following.
6129. “There are many heroes here holding the weapons given with blessing by Lord Shiva,The weapons like Pasa and other cruel ones given by Brahma sitting on the lotus flower,And found fault by the world and due to that wandering with sorrow, I am also here .”
6130. ”Even if all the people three worlds , blessed with all things ,Stand in the battle field along with all the chiefs of our enemies ,If I am not able to assure the victory only to you,Then you have not given birth to me as son ,And I am also not a son born to you in proper wedlock.”
6131. , “Oh Lord who is greatly angry at his enemies ,I would bring like mountain,The heads of both of our enemies , after killing monkey army completely and ,Making the world look like a battle field with headless monkeys dancing there ,After making those men worried and after making Sita suffer due to sorrow,Making those who see her get great mercy on her.”
6132. ,”You would enjoy looking at our victory when those blackened monkeys ,Getting scared to the strong arrows , which go like thunder from my bow Which can even split huge rocks and run away to different corners showing their teeth.”
6133. “Our enemies do not have elephants , they do not have any horses,They do not have chariots and also no strong army to send at us,They do not have strength of penance and with the support of,Small monkeys with hunched back , would these men able to win over us ?If so we asuras seem to have great masculinity.
6134. ,I would invert the five elements like water , earth , the strongly blowing wind,And the wide sky and all the big worlds of the universe within a day,And without allowing anyone to escape , completely uproot ,The men and monkeys and if I cannot win, I would not come back.,
6135. After saying this he fell at the feet of Ravana and saluted him ,Stood up and looking at Ravana told him, “Oh my very strong father .Please give me leave to go.” And when Indrajit was standing like this,Vibheeshana the younger brother of Ravana who knew the good,Much more , greater than the sages who have won over the bad by their strength,Bit his lips by his teeth and getting angry at Indrajit told him like this.
6136. ”Oh ignorant young boy who does not know about time and future happenings,You are talking as if you have learnt several books and have very sharp intelligence ,And as if you have the ability to look at the future ,Is it proper for you talk about these?
6137. ”Oh son who due to your youth has not thought about the method of ruling,You are talking like one who is blind as well not having expertise of art ,Taking a painting in hand and saying , “I will correct and draw it differently ,Is it proper for one like you to sit in this council , where there are very wise and old people ?”
6138. ”When those who are pure and our forefathers who have done proper and good deeds,Are standing as Devas ,The bad people like the Asuras Becoming devas by the good deeds that they do ,Is it due to their cheating or their strength.
6139. ”If we examine your valour for victory over devas after forsaking Dharma Even that appears to be due to your doing great penance without faults,Leaving your cruel character and due to the strength of boons given by those devas.”
6140. “Even after winning over the holy trinity and even after conquering,And ruling over all the seven worlds , due to their pride going beyond limit,They all get definitely destroyed and who are those cruel people ,Who have achieved great victory over devas and further llived?”
6141. ”The sages and devas leaving out criminal acts,Earlier as well as latter , they win over bad and good Karma ,And attain the great salvation and can I count the number iof such ones?How many of the Asuras have attained salvation on the other hand?”
6142. Vibheeshana then looked at Ravana and told him ,“If you chide yout son Indrajit who is very strong saying,“You talked like a child and proved that you are ignorant “And hear my words without making fun of them , I would continue to speak.”
6143. ,”To me you are my father as well as mother and my elder brother,You are also the God whom I should worship with my penance ,You are also everything else to me and I am talking like this,Due to sorrow due to the fact that you are going to lose ,This great kingship which is equivalent to that of Indra’s post.”
6144. ”Though I do not have have the greatness of reading and understanding great books ,Though I do not have the capacity of great thought to understand the proper meaning,Though the conclusions that I draw after the much talked about research are wrong ,Oh very strong one , even if you are going to be angry with me , do it after hearing me.”
6145. , “ The complete capital city of our country and your valorous victory,Were burnt by the chastity of the mother of the world who is called Janaki ,And is it wise to think that it was burnt by a monkey?”
6146. ”If we all think with a concentrated mind think,The growth up to the sky as well as downfall,Happened for the sake of a lady or possibly .For the sake of land .Can it happen for any other reason?”
6147. “Oh king who wears flower garland from which honey drips ,Has the word that , Ravana who was the king of Lanka,Surrounded by ocean full of fishes , lost his earlier power ,Got through penance due to a human lady,Which is a curse has been removed from today or not?”
6148. , “ During those days when you were doing great penance ,BY the order of Lord Btahma who has great quality of peace ,You did not get the boon for getting victory over men ,And now how can you expect to get victory over those men?”
6149. ”Is it necessary to give other reasons for being defeated by men,AS a matchless leader you singly won control of all the seven worlds,But you were defeated by a human king with one thousand hands.Is it necessary for me to give more examples of being defeated by men?”
6150. ,”Oh lord who has got limitless strength , on the day you,Uprooted the Kailasa mountain , the God Nandi with four shoulders,Cursed you that you would get destroyed by a monkey with huge tail,And you , yourself realized it in case of Vali.”
6151. ”Do you really posses the power to say “no” to the curse of,That chaste Vedavathi who jumped in to the fire and killed herself,That “I would become your sickness : and she is herself Sita,And also Goddess Lakshmi who was born in ocean of milk.”
6152. ,”A king called Dasaratha who was ruling all over the world ,Killed an Asura king called Sambara ,who travelled through the sky, And gave trouble to the devas by the power of his bow ,By cutting off his head and saved the Devas and helped them,By giving the kingship of the deva world to Indra and got great fame.”
6153. , “That king Dasaratha was the descendent of Parthu, who was matchless ,Made Indra in to a biull and sat on the back of that bull , became enemy of Asuras ,And fought and killed all those Asuras with his sword , conquered all the world,Made it very fertile , showered his grace on all people of the earth And also the Sagaras who made the ocean , and Bhageeratha ,Who brought the river Ganges in to the earth and was like God.”
6154. Dasaratha was one who waged war against the Asura clan who were,Living telling lies and angrily cause harm to this world and destroyed them,He then applied ghee to his spear put it in its case , and with desire,Encouraged the growth of Dharma and stood firmly in the path of Dharma ,And he gave two noons to his wife Kaikeyi with kajal applied eyes ,And told the truth gave them to her and also lost his life ,And has attained that world which even Devas cannot attain.”
6155. “Oh our grear lord, The sons of that great Dasaratha have now become your enemies,If you want to know what type of persons they are ,, Rama and Lakshmana .Do not have any one to match them in this world and with their rare qualities ,The sages as well as the Devas and the wise people who have realized everything, And all other life forms cannot even think about them,And due to our bad Karma they have become men and are coming against us.”
6156. A sage called Kaushika who said that he will create all the words,Along with Lord Brahma who sits on the cool lotus flowers,Who was the leader of saints gave with in the time of batting the eye ,All the weapons that he got grom Lord Shiva to Rama ,Which weapons can destroy anything and are with Rama and Lakshmana.
6157. At the time when Devas fought with the very strong Asuras,Who had matchless power in their shoulders , Lord Vishnu ,Sitting alone on the top of Garuda with his bow,Which can destroy the strong and very angry Asuras ,And that bow as well as the arrows which were used ,To burn the three cities were given to Rama ,By a sage called Agasthya who is the lord of all sages.
6158. ,”The serpent like arrows with Rama are capable of licking the world with their toungue,They are suitable to measure the directions and every day give out cruel poison,They have teeth which spit out light and they who are in the anthill of the quiver of their arrows ,Would eat only souls of those sinners who create problems to sages who have realized divine truth.”
6159. ”The bows that they hold are not made of wood or bamboo and are they not,The Mountain Meru which is lifting the world or all those mountains joined together ?Can it be moved by any one except Rama and Lakshmana ? and their strings also are strong .And though our bows are larger to look at , Would they be weak like our bows?”
6160. “ By the arrow sent by Rama , the chest of Vali who churned the ocean of milk,Alone became motionless , The maramara trees which had grown as it ,They covered the world lost their power , , the mountain like heads of Khara ,As well as Viradha were lost and later devas will see , Asuras fought and got destroyed ,Our burden would only be to get destroyed and are there any enemies who will not get destroyed?”
6161. ”Those great saints who have great power of boons who make others surprised,Due to their not having any help to remove their sorrows have decided that ,Rama and Lakshmana who have great strength of boons and strong shouldersWere capable of winning the entire world and would kill all the asuras ,And because of that they established connection with those heroes.”
5162. , “Thinking that “These Rakshasas who has eaten the cruel poison called Janaki ,Would reach only hell.” Those devas who did not have any other go except your protection,Are now not afraid of us and these Asuras are greatly scared to inform you this,And they are all not able to sleep day and night because of this fear.”
5163. , The faces of great sages due to the fact that they were not knowing,Which is the protection for them appeared for us as simple , very patient ,Not happy , with stains and without luster during the day time with Sun shining ,But the faces of those sages looked like the full moon at night.
5164. Those who were scared by us and went beyond this world with ebbing sea up to the end ,And were hiding and sorrowing greatly there changing their form as soon as they came to know,That the divine lady Sita who has a moon lake face was imprisoned in our city of Lanka,Along with God of death and others , devas , sages as well as others became fearless ,Saw their homes in heaven and the sky and are returning back happily.
6165. ”Innumerable bad omens are being seen all over continuously ,Our strong horses which cannot be defeated by enemies and which have great lineage ,And our mountain like elephants which loudly trumpet making enemies scared ,Which have taken part in the war between Devas and Asuras ,Are entering in to our houses keeping their right foot first.
6166. “The mouths and teeth of Asuras have got dried and they have lost their luster,Those ghosts who live here and the fear generating big foxes are multiplying fast,If we think differently our palaces , city of Lanka , hair of young ladies as well us,Our hair are giving the smell of burning in fire .Do we have ability to get any good omen for us?”
6167. “Oh Lord , if we know that, Khara and Trisira who in battle have driven away all the Devas ,And Marrecha who appeared as the deer of illusion , Vali the king of Kishkinda ,Were are all destroyed by Rama and Lakshmana , Lord Shiva who keeps deer like Uma on his left side ,And Lord Vishnu who is armed with the weapon of wheel, would ,In no way be comparable to Rama and Lakshmana.”
6168. ”Oh our lord., I would tell you one more thing and please hear it .Though Rama and Lakshmana are only two , devas who are our permanent foes ,Are standing close to them in the form of monkey chiefs and ,If we oppose them we would not succeed and it is also ,Not proper for us to think it is definite that we would fight with them.
6169. “ Let Us leave divine Sita who has fame , wealth great lineage ,Who does not have bad name and low status and who has chastity ,Which never gets weakened as there is no better option than this”Said Vibheeshana who was the best among the wise people.
6170. The very masculine Ravana who heard the words of Vibheeshana,After intertwining his fingers of different hands , Making his crescent like teeth,Of his ten mouths shedding the silver light of the moon , with scars ,Of wounds on his lustrous chest made by the sword ,Laughed uproariously shaking the garlands on his shoulders, and said.
6171. ,”Oh Sir, you told that I take undesirable decisions,And talked like a mad person and you also said,That my great strength would be won by some silly men,Did you tell this because of fear or love towards them.”
6172. ”You told that I did not get the boon for ability to kill men from Brahma,And you went on telling bad aspects because of this, Did I get a boon,To win over the very strong elephants which guard the directions,Or a boon to uproot Kailasa mountain along with fire coloured Shiva?”
6173. ”Without thinking by your mind you told some meaningless words,In the battle field what could the angry and cruel army of devas do to me?Not just for me but to you also who were born from the same womb,Did those men became any time stronger than you?”
6174. ”You did not tell suitable words possibly not understanding them,Though enemies have been defeated by me many times, they never,Got the strength to achieve victory over me . Perhaps you thought that, there areEnemies who can kill me in the battle field and my relatives Who are capable of uprooting the heaven .
6175. ”Oh younger one , if you say that my strength only depends on ,The boons that I have obtained from the Devas . please tell me ,Using which boon I won victory over Lord Shiva who rides on a bull,And Lord Vishnu who is capable of protecting all the world ,And who is armed with the divine wheel among the trinity.”
6176. ”If you say that monkeys would kill me due to the curse of Nandi,How many numerous curses have come and attained me so far?What sorrow did they bring to me? Among the devas and IndraAnd among the Sidhas and Yakshas who does not ,Want my destruction? Have they been able to do anything to me?”
6177. “Without knowing that I got strong boons out of love from Lord Shiva,Who dances on the stage , when I was depressed and standing after ,The battle with Vali as my strength went to him , I was defeated by him,And because of this how can you assume that all monkeys can win over me?”
6178. ”Even if the blue necked Shiva and the Lord Vishnu holding divine wheel,Fight face to face with Vali , even their strength will go and merge with Vali,And only thinking about that, that Rama avoided going in front of him,And killed that Vali by sending an arrow after hiding himself.”
6179. ”After breaking a dilapidated bow , sending an arrow through ,A Maramara tree with a hole , loosing kingship due to trick of the hunchback,Reaching the forest full of tall trees , losing his wife due to my act,Rama is roaming carrying his sweet soul. The strength of that type of weakling ,Would not be appreciated by any body except you.”
6180. After finding fault with the good advices of Vibheeshana and after calling,Him as an ignorant person addressing the Rakshasas standing there Ravana told,“Good , let us go, Let us go to the war “ and then Vibheeshana , Who loved Ravana,And who was wearing a flower garland went near him ,“Please hear one more strong thing that I have to tell you.” And started telling.
6181. “ That matchless God Vishnu who does not have anything greater than him,As per the words Devas who told him that we are evil people ,Has taken the incarnation of Rama for fighting with us , even after,Knowing this would you go to the war.” Saying this,Vibheeshana fell at the feet of Ravana . saluted and begged him.”
6182. Hearing that Ravana told him, “You told that Rama is the incarnation of,Lord Vishnu who is armed with the wheel. If it is so has not the Vishnu get defeated ,In many wars and when I continued to do only what I wanted .He had been inactive all these years” and Ravana get angry at Vibheeshana.”
6183. ’Even I had kept Indra the lord of Devas , Indra in a very big jail,Or when I broke in to pieces the tusk of Iravatha the elephant of devas.I have defeated that Lord Vishnu even before that in all the wars,And made him run after defeating him and also made the devas ,Scatter and run away and at that time possibly Vishnu was a small boy.”
6184. “Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma with four faces and Lord Vishnu who is consort of Lakshmi,And all other Devas are submitting themselves to me when I am ruling the three worlds ,And please tell me whether he had submitted because he , who is matchless ,In all the three worlds were absent or because he was not able to stand before my strength?”
6185. “ Did Lord Vishnu with thousand big shoulders and equal number of heads ,Who has a hige form which can keep all the worlds in one of his steps .Possibly thought that this form is evil and he who according to you is great ,Has taken the form of a man which is insignificant according to us.”
6186. ”The mad Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu as soon as they hear my name ,Would become depressed due to very great fear ,Because the arrows that I have sent pierced the bull of Lord Shiva,And the Garuda of Lord Vishnu on their back causing lot of scars, wherever they go,””
6187. “You need not come along with us to participate in the war ,Which gives rise to great anger as this great city has plenty of place ,And you can comfortably stay here, and so do not be scared,”And that Ravana who is crueler that the cruel , looked at ,The face of ministers, clapped his hands and laughed like thunder
6188. After hearing what Ravana told Vibheeshana told him,“Oh chief , many great people who are not like you got destroyed,Along with their relatives due to the anger of Lord Vishnu earlier,.There is one thing that I have to tell you . I would tell you about ,HIranya as it happened. Please hear it” and started telling about Hiranya.
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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.