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# Lanka Kand · Doha 72

**चौ०** 
> दिन कें अंत फिरीं द्वौ अनी। समर भई सुभटन्ह श्रम घनी॥  
> राम कृपाँ कपि दल बल बाढ़ा। जिमि तृन पाइ लाग अति डाढ़ा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> छीजहिं निसिचर दिनु अरु राती। निज मुख कहें सुकृत जेहि भाँती॥  
> बहु बिलाप दसकंधर करई। बंधु सीस पुनि पुनि उर धरई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> रोवहिं नारि हृदय हति पानी। तासु तेज बल बिपुल बखानी॥  
> मेघनाद तेहि अवसर आयउ। कहि बहु कथा पिता समुझायउ॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> देखेहु कालि मोरि मनुसाई। अबहिं बहुत का करौं बड़ाई॥  
> इष्टदेव सैं बल रथ पायउँ। सो बल तात न तोहि देखायउँ॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> एहि बिधि जल्पत भयउ बिहाना। चहुँ दुआर लागे कपि नाना॥  
> इत कपि भालु काल सम बीरा। उत रजनीचर अति रनधीरा॥५॥

**चौ०** 
> लरहिं सुभट निज निज जय हेतू। बरनि न जाइ समर खगकेतू॥६॥

Meaning: At the close of the day the two contending armies retired from the battle-field. The battle had proved exceedingly strenuous even to the stoutest warriors. But the monkey host waxed stronger by Śrī Rāma’s grace, even as fire blazes up when fed with straw. (1)

The ranks of the demons were thinning night and day like merit, which is exhausted by speaking of one’s good deeds with one’s own mouth. The ten-headed monster made much lamentation, clasping his brother’s head to his bosom again and again. (2)

The women wept and beat their breast with their hands, paying tributes to his extraordinary majesty and strength. At that juncture Meghanāda (Rāvaṇa’s eldest son) came and consoled his father by narrating a number of (reassuring) stories. (3)

“See my heroism tomorrow; I need not make any pretentious statement just now. I have had no occasion to show you, dear father, the strength which I acquired alongwith the chariot from my beloved deity.” (4)

While he rattled on in this manner, the day broke and swarms of monkeys besieged all the four gates. On this side ranged the monkey and bear warriors terrible as death, while on the other side stood the demons exceedingly staunch in battle. (5)

Every warrior fought for the victory of his own camp; the battle, O Garuḍa (says Kākabhuṣuṇḍi), defied all description. (6)

**दो०** 
> मेघनाद मायामय रथ चढ़ि गयउ अकास।  
> गर्जेउ अट्टहास करि भइ कपि कटकहि त्रास॥७२॥

Meaning: Mounting his charmed chariot Meghanāda ascended in the air and roared with a terrible laugh, which struck the monkey host with terror. (72)

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