Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER TWO devotion to him from you. Show devotion to him or show your power now. If you are lacking in devotion and power, in that case you will perish."
Indra said: "Rāvana has been worshipped by wretched kings, so he is crazed (with pride). Even crazed, he asks for a pūjā. Just as the time for Rāvana's happiness has passed, so the time, having the form of death, is present now for him. Go and show me your master's devotion or power. If he is deficient in devotion and power, he will perish in that case.”
When Rāvana had been so informed by the messenger, he, harsh from anger, very impetuous, armed himself and all the soldiers. Indra armed himself quickly and leftRathanūpura. For Heroes can not endure a lot of conceit in other heroes. Vassals with vassals, soldiers with soldiers, generals with generals of the two armies fought together. There was a conflict between the two armies raining weapons, like Puşkarāvarta clouds at the end of the world. Saying, "What is the use of these wretched soldiers being killed like flies?” Rāvana himself mounted the best of elephants, Bhuvanālankāra, his bow strung for battle, and attacked Indra seated on Airāvaņa. Indra's and Rāvana's elephants met, weaving magic snares over each other's faces, as it were, by coilings of their trunks. The two elephants, having great endurance, struck tusk against tusk, making sparks fly as if from rubbing a firestick. . A row of golden circlets fell to the ground at once from their tusks from their blows against each other as if from the arms of women separated from their husbands. Streams of blood flowed from their heads crushed by the blows with their tusks, like streams of ichor from their cheeks. Now with darts, now with arrows, now with hammers Rāvana and Indra fought like the two unequaled elephants. Very powerful, they ground missiles to pieces with missiles mutually. One was not inferior to the other, like the east and west ocean. The two of them, who had been initiated in the ceremony of battle, fought with