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JAIN RAMAYAN
"You are still hypocritical. What is the use of your hypocrisy? Even now, do you want to pursue me? Already in the battlefield using some magical trick you picked me up and threw me up into the sky and I felt greatly humiliated and dishonoured. You made me experience the worst possible disgrace and distress : and even now you are doing the same; but this time, I will not let you go alive. I will not rest until I have sent you to the abode of Yama. If you on that day threw me up into the sky along with my Chandrahas and performed circumambulations along the sea-coast, today I will lift you along with this mountain and throw you into the salt sea".
This kind of madness is natural in a man who has a false notion of his importance and who is haughty and arrogant. The agitation that had been caused by the defeat that Vali had inflicted upon him had not yet abated; yet he was now trying to provoke Vali, the valiant. He was trying to incite Vali though all his thousand attainments had been futile against Vali's incomparable might. Yet believing in the efficacy of his powers, he was courting a new disaster.
He, at once, descended to the foot of Ashtapad mountain. He cut open the earth and penetrated into it; and then he recited the Mantras relating to his thousand miraculous achievements; and began to lift the mighty mountain.
When he was pulling up the mountain, the stones and rocks on the mountain began to tumble down. The peaks of the mountain began to crack and break and the deafening noise of the breaking peaks shook the whole sky. The terrific noise of the tumbling peaks began to reverberate at great distances.
The mighty sage Vali, by means of his extra-sensory perception (Avadhijnan) saw what Ravan was doing. His compassionate heart palpitated with pity.
"Oh! What an enormity the sinner is trying to perpetrate ! What a tremendous destruction and violence he is causing impelled by animosity against me and he has dared to destroy the sublime Thirtha (holy place) which was constructed by
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| SR No. | 002021 |
| Book Title | Jain Ramayana Part 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Bhadraguptasuri |
| Publisher | Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana |
| Publication Year | 2000 |
| Total Pages | 452 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Mythology, & Story |
| File Size | 21 MB |