His strength and courage were limitless, -So was his adharma. He had no equal in
persecuting Devas, spoiling sacrifices and carrying away women. The hosts of Devas and
asuras were mortally afraid of him. He was a terror to all creatures. Enjoying wealth and
varied pleasures, freed from the fear of death, the ruler of Lanka knew no master or rival
and feared neither God nor sm.
With his ten heads, large eyes and huge
limbs, his figure was terrible, but it also possessed the marks of royalty. Gorgeously
dressed and bejewelled as he sat on his throne, surrounded by his ministers in the midst
of the splendour of the despoiled world, there suddenly appeared before him like the
vision of the doom to be, his sister Soorpanakha, bleeding and mutilated, a shape of pain
and sorrow and shame. While all looked at her with horror struck eyes in stunned silence,
her anguish broke out in burning words. |
