THE PATH OF RUN

Stung by her contempt and heart-struck by her suffering and sorrow, Raavana said: "Be sure you shall have vengeance. But this Raama, who is he? What sort of man is he? What are his weapons? How does he fight? What seeks he in Dandaka forest? And how happened it that you were so cruelly mutilated?"

She gave a description of the brothers and Seeta, dwelling on the virile beauty and powers of the brothers-probably with a view to provoke the envious jealousy of the Raakshasa---and growing enthusiastically eloquent about the superlative loveliness of Seeta.

"I have no words to describe her perfections. I have never seen such sublime beauty in any created thing-be it Gandharva or kinnara or a daughter of man. And now, I will tell you why this ghastly outrage was perpetrated on me. 

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