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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAM
his abode (7.11).
Then follows the marriage of Surpanakhā1, Rāvana2 and his brothers and the birth of the sons of Ravana (7 12). Thereafter Ravaņa started ruining the Devas, Ṛsis, Yaksas and Gandharvas and the Nandanavana etc. (7.13.8-9). Kumbhakarna is here referred to have undergone a long slumber. At 6.61.19 there is a reference to his kidnapping of other's wives (parastriharanam). Then follows the despatch of an envoy by Dhaneśvara to prevent Ravana from committing heinous crimes, the killing of that envoy by Ravanņa (7.13), Ravana's attack on Dhanada at Kailasa (7 14), the killing of the Yakṣa soldiers, the censure of Ravana by Dhanada (Kubera), the defeat of Kubera, the removal of Kubera to Nandanavana by his soldiers and the occupation of Puspakavimāna of Kubera and of Lanka by Ravana (7.15.35). There is no reference to the subduing of any elephant by Ravana.
According to the VR, Narada instigated Rāvana to conquer Yama (7.20 16) on the one hand and alerted Yama to face Ravana (7.21.6) on the other. Ravana then defeated the soldiers of Yama. Yama tried to kill Ravana but he was immediately prevented by Brahma (7.22.38-48). Ravana then entered into the Rasatala for further victory.
The TR refers to the extermination of Kubera and the Yakṣas from Lankapuri and the wresting of Puspakavimāna from Kubera (1.179). Yama's defeat is also referred to (1.82).
The Ramopakhyana (MB, 3 275) refers to the defeat of Kubera and the occupation of Puspakavimāna by Rāvana.
The PCR agrees with the PCV, but it mentions that Ṛkṣaraja was made the king of Kişkindhipura. The PCS does not mention Vaisravana's request to Ravana to avoid battle. Here Ucchuraya (Ṛkṣarāja) is made the king of Yamapuri (12.13). The RP'S follows the PCR, but no battle is mentioned between Vaiśravana and Rāvana. The former renounced the world and Rāvana paid homage to him (IV. p. 126).
According to the Vasudevahindi Ravana on being oppressed by his stepbrothers Soma, Yama etc. left his father's city and went away to Lanka. According to the UP and the MB Ravana's ancestor, Sahasragriva had already occupied Lanka on being expelled from his father's city by his nephew.
1. See further.
2. Already described.
