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title: "Sundara Kanda, Sarga 43"
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# Sundara Kanda, Sarga 43

> ततः स किंकरान् हत्वा हनूमान् ध्यानमास्थितः।  
> वनं भग्नं मया चैत्यप्रासादो न विनाशितः॥ १॥

Having killed the Kiṅkaras, the celebrated Hanumān then thought to himself : ‘The grove has been devastated by me, but the edifice of the sanctuary, sacred to the guardian deity of the ogres, has not been demolished.’ (1)

> तस्मात् प्रासादमद्यैवमिमं विध्वंसयाम्यहम्।  
> इति संचिन्त्य हनुमान् मनसादर्शयन् बलम्॥ २॥

Hanumān, therefore, stood revolving in his mind as follows : ‘Exhibiting my strength, I shall, therefore, likewise destroy this edifice today.’ (2)

> चैत्यप्रासादमुत्प्लुत्य मेरुशृङ्गमिवोन्नतम्।  
> आरुरोह हरिश्रेष्ठो हनूमान् मारुतात्मजः॥ ३॥

Taking a leap, Hanumān, the foremost of monkeys, climbed up the edifice of the sanctuary, which was high as a peak of Mount Meru. (3)

> आरुह्य गिरिसंकाशं प्रासादं हरियूथपः।  
> बभौ स सुमहातेजाः प्रतिसूर्य इवोदितः॥ ४॥

Climbing up the edifice, which closely resembled a mountain, that leader of monkey hordes, Hanumān, who was endowed with extraordinary effulgence, looked like a second sun, just risen. (4)

> सम्प्रधृष्य तु दुर्धर्षश्चैत्यप्रासादमुन्नतम्।  
> हनूमान् प्रज्वलँल्लक्ष्म्या पारियात्रोपमोऽभवत्॥ ५॥

Blazing with glory on having assailed that lofty edifice of the sanctuary, Hanumān for his part, who was difficult to challenge, shone like the Pāriyātra mountain (one of the seven principal mountains of India). (5)

> स भूत्वा सुमहाकायः प्रभावान् मारुतात्मजः।  
> धृष्टमास्फोटयामास लङ्कां शब्देन पूरयन्॥ ६॥

Assuming immense proportions by dint of his glory, Hanumān, sprung from the loins of the wind-god, boldly began to demolish the sanctuary filling Laṅkā with the crash. (6)

> तस्यास्फोटितशब्देन महता श्रोत्रघातिना।  
> पेतुर्विहंगमास्तत्र चैत्यपालाश्च मोहिताः॥ ७॥

At the loud and deafening sound of his act of demolition, the birds as well as the guards of the sanctuary toppled down senseless on the spot. (7)

> अस्त्रविज्जयतां रामो लक्ष्मणश्च महाबलः।  
> राजा जयति सुग्रीवो राघवेणाभिपालितः॥ ८॥

“May Śrī Rāma, skilled in the use of missiles, be eminently victorious, as well as Lakṣmaṇa, endowed with extraordinary might. Triumphant is King Sugrīva, protected on all sides by Śrī Rāma, a scion of Raghu. (8)

> दासोऽहं कोसलेन्द्रस्य रामस्याक्लिष्टकर्मणः।  
> हनूमान् शत्रुसैन्यानां निहन्ता मारुतात्मजः॥ ९॥

“I, Hanumān, sprung from the loins of the wind-god, and destroyer of hostile armies, am a servant of Śrī Rāma of unwearied action, the lord of Kośala. (9)

> न रावणसहस्रं मे युद्धे प्रतिबलं भवेत्।  
> शिलाभिश्च प्रहरतः पादपैश्च सहस्रशः॥ १०॥

“Not even a thousand of Rāvaṇas can stand my might in combat, even as I assail them with myriad of rocks and trees. (10)

> धर्षयित्वा पुरीं लङ्कामभिवाद्य च मैथिलीम्।  
> समृद्धार्थो गमिष्यामि मिषतां सर्वरक्षसाम्॥ ११॥

“Destroying the city of Laṅkā and greeting Sītā, the princess of Mithilā, I shall return fully accomplished of purpose, while all the ogres stand looking on.” (11)

> एवमुक्त्वा महाकायश्चैत्यस्थो हरियूथपः।  
> ननाद भीमनिर्ह्रादो रक्षसां जनयन् भयम्॥ १२॥

Having shouted thus while standing on the sanctuary, the colossal Hanumān, a leader of the monkey hordes, emitted a terrible thunder-like roar, causing terror to the ogres. (12)

> तेन नादेन महता चैत्यपालाः शतं ययुः।  
> गृहीत्वा विविधानस्त्रान् प्रासान् खड्गान् परश्वधान्॥ १३॥  
> विसृजन्तो महाकाया मारुतिं पर्यवारयन्।  
> ते गदाभिर्विचित्राभिः परिघैः काञ्चनाङ्गदैः॥ १४॥  
> आजग्मुर्वानरश्रेष्ठं बाणैश्चादित्यसंनिभैः।  
> आवर्त इव गङ्गायास्तोयस्य विपुलो महान्॥ १५॥  
> परिक्षिप्य हरिश्रेष्ठं स बभौ रक्षसां गणः।  
> ततो वातात्मजः क्रुद्धो भीमरूपं समास्थितः॥ १६॥  
> प्रासादस्य महांस्तस्य स्तम्भं हेमपरिष्कृतम्।  
> उत्पाटयित्वा वेगेन हनूमान् मारुतात्मजः॥ १७॥  
> ततस्तं भ्रामयामास शतधारं महाबलः।  
> तत्र चाग्निः समभवत् प्रासादश्चाप्यदह्यत॥ १८॥

Impelled by that great noise, a hundred gigantic guards posted at the sanctuary sallied forth seizing missiles of every description, as well as spears, swords and axes, and discharging them, surrounded Hanumān, son of the wind-god, from all sides. Armed with weird maces, iron clubs plated with gold and arrows shining brightly as the sun, they approached Hanumān, the foremost of monkeys. Surrounding Hanumān, that host of ogres looked like a mighty and extensive whirlpool in the stream of the Gaṅgā. The infuriated Hanumān thereupon took on a terrible aspect. Tearing up with impetuosity a pillar, decked with gold, and bristling with a hundred edges of that edifice, the great Hanumān, sprung from the loins of the wind-god and endowed with extraordinary might, then began to spin it round, so that fire was generated from it due to its attrition with other pillars and the edifice was set ablaze with it. (13—18)

> दह्यमानं ततो दृष्ट्वा प्रासादं हरियूथपः।  
> स राक्षसशतं हत्वा वज्रेणेन्द्र इवासुरान्॥ १९॥  
> अन्तरिक्षस्थितः श्रीमानिदं वचनमब्रवीत्।  
> मादृशानां सहस्राणि विसृष्टानि महात्मनाम्॥ २०॥  
> बलिनां वानरेन्द्राणां सुग्रीववशवर्तिनाम्।  
> अटन्ति वसुधां कृत्स्नां वयमन्ये च वानराः॥ २१॥

Having dispatched all the hundred ogres posted there by means of that pillar, even as Indra got rid of demons with his thunderbolt, and on seeing that monument in flames, that glorious leader of monkey hordes then proclaimed as follows, standing in airspace all the while : “Thousands of colossal and mighty leaders of monkeys, resembling me and amenable to the control of Sugrīva, have been dispatched in all directions. We as well as other monkeys are scouring the entire globe. (19—21)

> दशनागबलाः केचित् केचिद् दशगुणोत्तराः।  
> केचिन्नागसहस्रस्य बभूवुस्तुल्यविक्रमाः॥ २२॥

“Some of them are endowed with the strength of ten elephants, others are ten times as strong as the former, while still others are equal in prowess to a thousand elephants. (22)

> सन्ति चौघबलाः केचित् सन्ति वायुबलोपमाः।  
> अप्रमेयबलाः केचित् तत्रासन् हरियूथपाः॥ २३॥

“Some leaders of monkey hordes out of them are endowed with the strength of a flood, while others are as strong as the wind, while still others possess strength beyond measure. (23)

> ईदृग्विधैस्तु हरिभिर्वृतो दन्तनखायुधैः।  
> शतैः शतसहस्रैश्च कोटिभिश्चायुतैरपि॥ २४॥  
> आगमिष्यति सुग्रीवः सर्वेषां वो निषूदनः।  
> नेयमस्ति पुरी लङ्का न यूयं न च रावणः।  
> यस्य त्विक्ष्वाकुवीरेण बद्धं वैरं महात्मना॥ २५॥

“Surrounded by hundreds, nay, myriads, lakhs and even crores of such monkeys, Sugrīva, who is capable of destroying you all, will come here soon. Neither will this city of Laṅkā endure, nor you, ogres, nor again Rāvaṇa, by whom enmity has actually been courted with the high-souled Śrī Rāma, the hero of the House of Ikṣwāku.” (24-25)

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