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title: "Sunderkand Doha 19"
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# Sunderkand · Doha 19

**चौ०** 
> सुनि सुत बध लंकेस रिसाना। पठएसि मेघनाद बलवाना॥  
> मारसि जनि सुत बाँधेसु ताही। देखिअ कपिहि कहाँ कर आही॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> चला इंद्रजित अतुलित जोधा। बंधु निधन सुनि उपजा क्रोधा॥  
> कपि देखा दारुन भट आवा। कटकटाइ गर्जा अरु धावा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> अति बिसाल तरु एक उपारा। बिरथ कीन्ह लंकेस कुमारा॥  
> रहे महाभट ताके संगा। गहि गहि कपि मर्दइ निज अंगा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> तिन्हहि निपाति ताहि सन बाजा। भिरे जुगल मानहुँ गजराजा॥  
> मुठिका मारि चढ़ा तरु जाई। ताहि एक छन मुरुछा आई॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> उठि बहोरि कीन्हिसि बहु माया। जीति न जाइ प्रभंजन जाया॥५॥

Meaning: Rāvaṇa flew into a rage when he heard of his son’s death and sent the mighty Meghanāda. “Kill him not, my son, but bind him. Let us see the monkey and ascertain wherefrom he comes.” (1)

Meghanāda, the conqueror of lndra, sallied forth, a peerless champion, seized with fury at the news of his brother’s death. When Hanumān saw this fierce warrior approach, he gnashed his teeth and with a roar rushed forward to meet him. (2)

He tore up a tree of enormous size and smashed with it the chariot, thus rendering the crown prince of Laṅkā, Meghanāda, without any vehicle. As for the mighty warriors who accompanied him, Hanumān seized them one by one and crushed them by rubbing them against his body. (3)

Having finished them off, he closed with Meghanāda. It was like the encounter of two lordly elephants. Striking the opponent with his clenched fist, Hanumān sprang and climbed up a tree; while Meghanāda lay unconscious for a moment. (4)

He rose again and resorted to many a delusive device; but the son of the wind-god was not the one to be vanquished. (5)

**दो०** 
> ब्रह्म अस्त्र तेहिं साँधा कपि मन कीन्ह बिचार।  
> जौं न ब्रह्मसर मानउँ महिमा मिटइ अपार॥१९॥

Meaning: Meghanāda ultimately put to his bow the arrow known as Brahmāstra (the weapon presided over by Brahmā), when Hanumān thought within himself: ‘If I submit not to Brahmā’s own weapon, its infinite glory will be lost.’ (19)

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