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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CHAPTER FIVE and she went off to a distance and gave a lion's roar like Saumitri in person. Hearing the lion's roar, Rāma thought in confusion: "The younger brother has no equal in the world, like Hastimalla. I see no one by whom Saumitri meets trouble. Yet the lion's roar, the signal of trouble, is heard.” While Rama, noble-minded, was hesitating, Sītā, because of affection for Lakşmaņa, said to him: "Husband, why do you hesitate now when the boy is in trouble? Go quickly and protect Lakşmaņa." Urged by these words of Sītā and by the lion's roar, Rāma went quickly, even disregarding omens.
Then Daśagriva got out of his aerial car, Puspaka, and began to put Janaka's daughter, screaming, in it. "Mistress, I am here. Do not be afraid. Stop! Stop, fiend !” saying this angrily, Jațāyus ran at him from a distance. The great bird furrowed Rāvana's chest with the sharp ends of his bill and claws, like a great field with plows. Then Daśagriva, angry, took his cruel sword, cut off his wings, and made the bird fall to the ground. Unhesitatingly Daśagriya put Sītā into Puspaka and set out through the air, his wish almost fulfilled.
“Oh! my lord, Rāma, by whom enemies are destroyed; Oh!-dear Lakşmaņa; oh! my father; oh! brother Bhāmandala, long-armed. Sītā is seized by this man through a trick, like an offering of food by a crow." So Sītā cried, making heaven and earth cry. A Khecara, Ratnajaţi, son of Arkajaţi, heard her cry and thought: "That is certainly Råma's wife. Rāma and Lakşmaņa were tricked by that noise which was heard above the ocean and she is kidnaped by Rāvaņa. I shall aid my lord Bhāmandala now." With this thought, drawing his sword he ran at Daśakandhara, attacking him. Daśānana laughed at him challenging him to battle and at once destroyed all his vidyā by the power of (his own) vidyā. When his vidyā had been destroyed, like a bird whose wings have been cut off, he fell and landed on Kambuśaila in Kambudvīpa.