Doha 170
सयन कीन्ह नृप आयसु मानी। आसन जाइ बैठ छलग्यानी॥ श्रमित भूप निद्रा अति आई। सो किमि सोव सोच अधिकाई॥१॥
कालकेतु निसिचर तहँ आवा। जेहिं सूकर होइ नृपहि भुलावा॥ परम मित्र तापस नृप केरा। जानइ सो अति कपट घनेरा॥२॥
तेहि के सत सुत अरु दस भाई। खल अति अजय देव दुखदाई॥ प्रथमहिं भूप समर सब मारे। बिप्र संत सुर देखि दुखारे॥३॥
तेहिं खल पाछिल बयरु सँभारा। तापस नृप मिलि मंत्र बिचारा॥ जेहिं रिपु छय सोइ रचेन्हि उपाऊ। भावी बस न जान कछु राऊ॥४॥
Meaning
The king went to sleep in obedience to the hermit; while the fake sage returned to his own seat and sat down there. Deep sleep came upon the weary monarch; but how could the other fellow sleep, distracted as he was with anxiety. (1) The demon Kālaketu made his appearance there; it was he who had assumed the form of a boar and led the king astray. A great friend of the hermit-king, he was skilled in manifold ways of deceit. (2) He had a hundred sons and ten brothers, who were great villains, invincible and troublesome to the gods. Seeing the Brāhmaṇas, saints and gods in distress, the king had already killed them all in battle. (3) Recalling the old enemity the wretch conspired with the hermit-king and contrived a plot for the extermination of the enemy; but, as fate would have it, the king had no inkling of it. (4)
रिपु तेजसी अकेल अपि लघु करि गनिअ न ताहु। अजहुँ देत दुख रबि ससिहि सिर अवसेषित राहु॥१७०॥
Meaning
A spirited foe, even though left alone, should not be taken lightly. The demon Rāhu,* who has nothing left of him but his head, is able to torment both the sun and the moon even to this day. (170) * According to the Hindu mythology a solar or lunar eclipse takes place only when in the astral plane the demon Rāhu, a sworn enemy of both the sun-god and the moon-god, devours the one or the other, either wholly or partially. The demon, however consists of the head alone, his trunk having been cut off by God Viṣṇu while he was cunningly attempting to partake of the nectar which was being served to the gods. Since, however, he had already tasted the nectar, the head became immortal.
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