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## The Thirteenth Chapter
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Unable to leave their own land, their friends and relatives remained there, like chatakas, filled with anxiety, looking towards the path. ||29||
O Gunalaya, you too, following your lineage, are serving Lanka and attaining supreme joy. What can be said about one's birthplace? ||30||
Therefore, we shall go to that very land, the source of great pleasures. May the forest protect you, beloved of the gods, for a long time. ||31||
Having said this, Indra, along with his son Sahasrar and the Lokapalas, went to the Vijayadha mountain, accompanied by Ravana for a short distance. ||32||
All the Lokapalas remained in their respective places as before, but due to the defeat, they became devoid of essence, like moving machines. ||33||
Seeing the Vijayavasi people, the gods, filled with immense shame, did not know where they were going. Thus, the gods remained constantly depressed by their pleasures. ||34||
Indra did not find joy in the city, nor in the gardens, nor in the ponds filled with lotus pollen water. In other words, due to the defeat, he found nothing pleasing. ||35||
He did not even cast his simple gaze upon the women. What to speak of his body? His mind was always filled with shame. ||36||
Although people, by introducing other topics of conversation, constantly tried to make him forget his sorrow related to the defeat, his mind did not become healthy. ||37||
Then, one day, Indra, sitting on the top of a pillar inside his palace, resembling the peak of Mount Gandhamadana, was seated in the Jinalaya. ||38||
Wise men surrounded him. He, remembering the defeat constantly, was holding his body with a sense of disrespect. While sitting, he thought: ||39||
Shame on this wealth, connected to knowledge, which, like a very high group of clouds in the autumn season, vanished in a moment. ||40||
Those weapons, those elephants, those warriors, and those horses, all became like grass due to my previous wonder. ||41||