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title: "Lanka Kand Doha 83"
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# Lanka Kand · Doha 83

Rāvaṇa’s swoon; destruction of his sacrificial performance; combat between Śrī Rāma and Rāvaṇa

**चौ०** 
> रे खल का मारसि कपि भालू। मोहि बिलोकु तोर मैं कालू॥  
> खोजत रहेउँ तोहि सुतघाती। आजु निपाति जुड़ावउँ छाती॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> अस कहि छाड़ेसि बान प्रचंडा। लछिमन किए सकल सत खंडा॥  
> कोटिन्ह आयुध रावन डारे। तिल प्रवान करि काटि निवारे॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> पुनि निज बानन्ह कीन्ह प्रहारा। स्यंदनु भंजि सारथी मारा॥  
> सत सत सर मारे दस भाला। गिरि सृंगन्ह जनु प्रबिसहिं ब्याला॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> पुनि सत सर मारा उर माहीं। परेउ धरनि तल सुधि कछु नाहीं॥  
> उठा प्रबल पुनि मुरुछा जागी। छाड़िसि ब्रह्म दीन्हि जो साँगी॥४॥

Meaning: “(Lakṣmaṇa said:) Pooh! You are making the monkeys and bears your target, O vile wretch, look at me, I am your death.” “It is you whom I have been looking for, you slayer of my son. Today I will soothe my heart by killing you (said Rāvaṇa).” (1)

So saying he discharged a flight of fierce arrows; but Lakṣmaṇa shivered them into hundred pieces each. Nay, Rāvaṇa hurled upon him myriads of other missiles, but Lakṣmaṇa foiled them all by reducing them to particles as small as sesamum seeds. (2)

Again, Lakṣmaṇa assailed him with his own shafts, smashing his chariot and killing the charioteer. Nay, each of his ten heads he transfixed with a hundred arrows, which seemed like serpents boring their way into the peaks of a mountain. (3)

With a hundred arrows more Lakṣmaṇa struck Rāvaṇa in the breast and he (Rāvaṇa) fell senseless to the ground. On regaining his consciousness the mighty demon rose again and hurled a lance that had been bestowed on him by Brahmā (the Creator). (4)

**छं०** 
> सो ब्रह्म दत्त प्रचंड सक्ति अनंत उर लागी सही।  
> पर्यो बीर बिकल उठाव दसमुख अतुल बल महिमा रही॥  
> ब्रह्मांड भवन बिराज जाकें एक सिर जिमि रज कनी।  
> तेहि चह उठावन मूढ़ रावन जान नहिं त्रिभुअन धनी॥

Meaning: That fierce lance, the gift of Brahmā, struck Lakṣmaṇa right in the breast and the hero dropped to the ground full of agony. The ten-headed monster tried to lift the Prince and carry him off, but the pomp of the demon’s matchless strength proved ineffective. How foolish it was on the part of Rāvaṇa to have sought to lift him on one of whose (thousand) heads rest all the spheres of the universe like a mere grain of sand. He little knew that he was no other than the Lord of the three spheres, Lakṣmaṇa.

**दो०** 
> देखि पवनसुत धायउ बोलत बचन कठोर।  
> आवत कपिहि हन्यो तेहिं मुष्टि प्रहार प्रघोर॥८३॥

Meaning: The son of the wind-god, who perceived this, rushed forward speaking harsh words; but even as Hanumān came near, the monster struck him a terrible blow with his fist. (83)

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