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title: "Lanka Kand Doha 21"
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# Lanka Kand · Doha 21

**चौ०** 
> रे कपिपोत बोलु संभारी। मूढ़ न जानेहि मोहि सुरारी॥  
> कहु निज नाम जनक कर भाई। केहि नातें मानिऐ मिताई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> अंगद नाम बालि कर बेटा। तासों कबहुँ भई ही भेटा॥  
> अंगद बचन सुनत सकुचाना। रहा बालि बानर मैं जाना॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> अंगद तहीं बालि कर बालक। उपजेहु बंस अनल कुल घालक॥  
> गर्भ न गयहु ब्यर्थ तुम्ह जायहु। निज मुख तापस दूत कहायहु॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> अब कहु कुसल बालि कहँ अहई। बिहँसि बचन तब अंगद कहई॥  
> दिन दस गएँ बालि पहिं जाई। बूझेहु कुसल सखा उर लाई॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> राम बिरोध कुसल जसि होई। सो सब तोहि सुनाइहि सोई॥  
> सुनु सठ भेद होइ मन ताकें। श्रीरघुबीर हृदय नहिं जाकें॥५॥

Meaning: “Mind what you speak, you little monkey. Fool, are you not aware of me, an avowed enemy of the gods? Tell me, young fellow, your own name as well as your father’s. What is the common ground on which you claim fellowship between your father and myself?” (1)

“Aṅgada is my name: I am Bāli’s son. Did you ever meet him?” Rāvaṇa felt abashed when he heard Aṅgada’s reply. “Yes, I do remember that there was a monkey, Bāli by name. (2)

“But, Aṅgada, are you Bāli’s son? You have been born as a fire in a cluster of bamboos for the destruction of your own race. Why should you have not perished even in the womb? In vain were you born, who have called yourself with your own mouth ‘a hermit’s envoy’. (3)

“Now tell me if all is well with Bāli and, if so, where is he?” Aṅgada laughed at this and then replied: “Ten days hence you shall go to Bāli and embracing your friend, personally enquire after his welfare. (4)

“He will tell you all about the welfare that follows from hostility to Śrī Rāma. Listen, O fool, the seeds of dissension can be sown in the mind of him alone whose heart is closed to Śrī Raghuvīra. (5)

**दो०** 
> हम कुल घालक सत्य तुम्ह कुल पालक दससीस।  
> अंधउ बधिर न अस कहहिं नयन कान तव बीस॥२१॥

Meaning: “I, forsooth, am the exterminator of my race; while you, O Rāvaṇa, are the preserver of yours! Even the blind and the deaf would not say so, whereas you possess a score of eyes and an equal number of ears. (21)

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