Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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BRINGING NEWS OF SĪTĀ
269 mistress, I shall take you into the master's presence, having conquered Rāvana and his army."
Sītā said with a smile: "You do not shame your lord, Rāmabhadra, speaking with such confidence, sir. Everything is suitable for you, a soldier of Rāma and Sārigin, but it is not proper for a strange man to touch me at all. That being so, go very quickly. You have done everything so that when you have gone my husband will make active preparation."
Hanumat said: "I am going, but I shall show these Rakşases the fickleness of power. This Daśāsya, thinking himself a conqueror, scorns the strength of others. Let him know the power of Rāmabhadra's soldier." Saying, "Very well," Sītā gave him her crest-jewel. He bowed to her and departed, shaking the earth with his heavy footsteps.
He began to destroy that same garden Devaramaņa by the strength of his hand reaching forth, like a forestelephant destroying a forest. He began the sport of destruction, without pity for the red aśokas, without confusion among the bakulas, without compassion for mangoes, without motion among the campakas, with sharp anger for the coral trees, without mercy for the plantains and for other beautiful trees.172 Then the doorkeepers at the four gates of the garden, who were Rākşasas, ran to attack him with hammers in their hands. Their blows stumbled on Hanūmat like ocean-waves on a mountain on the coast. Pāvani, angered, struck them with the same trees of the garden, without fatigue. Everything is a weapon for the strong. Quickly he destroyed the trifling Räkşasa guards, as well as the trees, hethe Aikşväku soldier, unstumbling as the wind. Some men went and told the lord of Räksasas about the killing of the guards of the garden committed by Hanūmat.
172 367. There are pups on the adjectives and names of the trees which are purely a matter of sound and can not be reproduced.