Doha 73
सक्ति सूल तरवारि कृपाना। अस्त्र सस्त्र कुलिसायुध नाना॥ डारइ परसु परिघ पाषाना। लागेउ बृष्टि करै बहु बाना॥१॥
दस दिसि रहे बान नभ छाई। मानहुँ मघा मेघ झरि लाई॥ धरु धरु मारु सुनिअ धुनि काना। जो मारइ तेहि कोउ न जाना॥२॥
गहि गिरि तरु अकास कपि धावहिं। देखहिं तेहि न दुखित फिरि आवहिं॥ अवघट घाट बाट गिरि कंदर। माया बल कीन्हेसि सर पंजर॥३॥
जाहिं कहाँ ब्याकुल भए बंदर। सुरपति बंदि परे जनु मंदर॥ मारुतसुत अंगद नल नीला। कीन्हेसि बिकल सकल बलसीला॥४॥
पुनि लछिमन सुग्रीव बिभीषन। सरन्हि मारि कीन्हेसि जर्जर तन॥ पुनि रघुपति सैं जूझै लागा। सर छाँड़इ होइ लागहिं नागा॥५॥
ब्याल पास बस भए खरारी। स्वबस अनंत एक अबिकारी॥ नट इव कपट चरित कर नाना। सदा स्वतंत्र एक भगवाना॥६॥
रन सोभा लगि प्रभुहिं बँधायो। नागपास देवन्ह भय पायो॥७॥
Meaning
He discharged a volley of lances, pikes, swords and scimitars as well as axes, bludgeons and stones, and other missiles and weapons of every description, terrible as a thunderbolt, and further rained down shafts in profusion. (1) The sky was thickly covered with arrows on all sides, as though the clouds poured in torrents in the month of Bhādrapada (approx. August-September), when the constellation Maghā (the tenth in order of the twenty-seven Nakṣatras) is in the ascendant. The cries of “Seize, seize, kill, kill” filled every ear; but nobody knew who it was that struck them. (2) Snatching up rocks and trees, the monkeys sprang up in the air; but they could not see him and returned sore disappointed. Meanwhile, by his delusive power Meghanāda had turned every rugged valley, path and mountain cave into a veritable aviary of arrows. (3) The monkeys were confounded and did not know where to turn to. They felt helpless like so many Mandaras (mountains) thrown into prison, as it were, by Indra. Hanumān, Aṅgada, Nala, Nīla and all the other mighty heroes were completely discomfited by him. (4) Again he assailed with his shafts Lakṣmaṇa, Sugrīva, and Vibhīṣaṇa and pierced their bodies through and through. Then he confronted Śrī Raghunātha Himself; the arrows he let fly turned into serpents even as they struck Śrī Rāma. (5) The Slayer of Khara, Śrī Rāma, who is all-independent, infinite and immutable, the one without a second, was overpowered by the serpents’ coils. Like an actor, He plays many a part—He, the One, ever-free and omnipotent Lord. (6) It was in order to invest the battle with a glow of distinction of its own that the Lord allowed Himself to be bound by a snare of serpents, even though the gods were dismayed at this sight. (7)
गिरिजा जासु नाम जपि मुनि काटहिं भव पास। सो कि बंध तर आवइ ब्यापक बिस्व निवास॥७३॥
Meaning
Girijā, (continues Lord Śiva,) is it ever possible that the Lord, who is the all-pervading abode of the universe and whose name, when repeated enables the hermits to cut asunder the bonds of existence, should fall in bondage? (73)
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