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# Aranya Kand · Doha 25

**चौ०** 
> दसमुख सकल कथा तेहि आगें। कही सहित अभिमान अभागें॥  
> होहु कपट मृग तुम्ह छलकारी। जेहि बिधि हरि आनौं नृपनारी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> तेहिं पुनि कहा सुनहु दससीसा। ते नररूप चराचर ईसा॥  
> तासों तात बयरु नहिं कीजै। मारें मरिअ जिआएँ जीजै॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> मुनि मख राखन गयउ कुमारा। बिनु फर सर रघुपति मोहि मारा॥  
> सत जोजन आयउँ छन माहीं। तिन्ह सन बयरु किएँ भल नाहीं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> भइ मम कीट भृंग की नाई। जहँ तहँ मैं देखउँ दोउ भाई॥  
> जौं नर तात तदपि अति सूरा। तिन्हहि बिरोधि न आइहि पूरा॥४॥

Meaning: The wretched Rāvaṇa proudly narrated the whole story to him and added, “Assume the false appearance of a wily deer, so that I may be able to abduct the royal bride.” (1)

Mārīca, however, remonstrated, “Listen, Rāvaṇa, though disguised as a man, He is the lord of the whole animate and inanimate creation. There can be no quarrel with Him, my dear; we die when He would have us die and live only by His sufferance. (2)

“Those very princes had gone to guard the sacrifice of the sage Viśvāmitra, when Śrī Raghunātha smote me with a blunt arrow, that threw me at a distance of 800 miles in an instant. It will not be good to antagonize them. (3)

“I find myself reduced to the position of an insect*” caught in the nest of a Bhṛṅga (a wasp-like winged creature) inasmuch as I behold the two brothers wherever I look. Even if they are human beings, my dear, they are distinguished heroes, nonetheless; and opposition to them will not avail. (4)

* It is a matter of common observation that the Bhṛṅga catches hold of any insect whatsoever and confining it in its nest of mud, hums incessantly before it with the result that the insect is enamoured of the Bhṛṅga and is eventually transformed into a Bhṛṅga.

**दो०** 
> जेहिं ताड़का सुबाहु हति खंडेउ हर कोदंड।  
> खर दूषन तिसिरा बधेउ मनुज कि अस बरिबंड॥२५॥

Meaning: “But can he possibly be a man, who recklessly killed Tāḍakā and Subāhu, broke Śiva’s bow and slew Khara, Dūṣaṇa and Triśirā? (25)

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