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title: "Lanka Kand Doha 28"
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# Lanka Kand · Doha 28

**चौ०** 
> सठ साखामृग जोरि सहाई। बाँधा सिंधु इहइ प्रभुताई॥  
> नाघहिं खग अनेक बारीसा। सूर न होहिं ते सुनु सब कीसा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> मम भुज सागर बल जल पूरा। जहँ बूड़े बहु सुर नर सूरा॥  
> बीस पयोधि अगाध अपारा। को अस बीर जो पाइहि पारा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> दिगपालन्ह मैं नीर भरावा। भूप सुजस खल मोहि सुनावा॥  
> जौं पै समर सुभट तव नाथा। पुनि पुनि कहसि जासु गुन गाथा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> तौ बसीठ पठवत केहि काजा। रिपु सन प्रीति करत नहिं लाजा॥  
> हरगिरि मथन निरखु मम बाहू। पुनि सठ कपि निज प्रभुहि सराहू॥४॥

Meaning: “Fool, with the help of monkeys your master has bridged the ocean; is this all what you call ‘valour’? There are many birds which fly across the ocean; yet, listen, O monkey, they are no heroes at all. (1)

“Now each of my arms is a veritable ocean, brimming over with a flood of strength, beneath which many a valiant god and man has been drowned. What hero is there, who will cross these twenty unfathomable and boundless oceans? (2)

“I made the guardians of the eight quarters do menial service to me; while you, O wretch, glorify an earthly prince before me ! If your lord, whose virtues you recount again and again, is valiant in battle, (3)

“why does he send an envoy to me? Is he not ashamed to make terms with his enemy? Look at my arms, which lifted and violently shook Mount Kailāsa, and then, foolish monkey, extol your master, if you like. (4)

**दो०** 
> सूर कवन रावन सरिस स्वकर काटि जेहिं सीस।  
> हुने अनल अति हरष बहु बार साखि गौरीस॥२८॥

Meaning: “What hero is there equal to Rāvaṇa, who with his own hands cut off his heads time and again and offered them to the sacrificial fire with great delight, as will be borne out by Gaurī’s Spouse, Lord Śiva Himself. (28)

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Kand: https://ramayana.com/ramcharitmanas/lanka-kand  
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