Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

SR No.: 001004
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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RĀVANA'S EXPEDITION OF CONQUEST . 119 by Daśāsya because he did not know it before, like the trumpeting of an elephant endured by a sleeping lion. Let the elder brother, Daśagriva, sit quietly. The elder brother, Kumbhakarņa, also is able to destroy enemies, even if superexcellent soldiers. Leave aside the elder brother, Kumbhakarņa. At their command I shall destroy the enemy suddenly, like the falling of a thunderbolt, mother."
Then Rāvaņa, biting his lower lip, said: “You are hard as diamond, mother, since you have borne this severe sorrow for a long time. I shall destroy the enemy, Indra and others, with the strength of one hand. Do not speak of sword against sword; for they are really like straw to me. Even if I am able to conquer the enemy by strength of arm, nevertheless, the power of vidyås, which was inherited, is suitable for use. I shall subdue completely the vidyas which are above reproach. With your permission my younger brothers and I shall go to subdue them."
With these words, he bowed to his parents and, after he had been kissed on the head by them, went to a terrible forest with his younger brothers. Accompanied by his two brothers, he entered the forest whose trees nearby were shaken by the breathing of lizards and pythons, whose ground was burst open by the blows of the tails of arrogant tigers, whose thickets of trees were terrible from the hooting of large owls, which had stones from mountainslopes falling from the stamping of dancing demons, terrifying even to the gods, the abode of calamities. ... Wearing crowns of matted hair like ascetics, carrying rosaries, their glances fixed on the ends of the bridges of their noses, dressed in white, in two watches the three subdued the eight-syllable vidyā which grants all desires. They began to mutter the sixteen-syllable charm, the muttering of which for ten thousand crores of times gives results.
Just then a god, named Anādsta, lord of Jambūdvipa came there with his harem to play and saw them. The