Lanka Kaanda
172 - conflict actually begins
Chaupais
Description
host, they would seize him by the leg and send him flying to their lord (Sri Rama). Vibhisana would mention their name and Sri Rama assigned even them a quarter in His own abode. Man-eating monsters who feasted on the flesh of holy Brahmanas thus attained a destiny which is solicited even by Yogis (ascetics given to contemplation on God). Uma, (continues Lord Siva,) Sri Rama is so tender-hearted and such a storehouse of compassion that He bestows the highest state (final beatitude) even on the demons, remembering that they think of Him even though in a spirit of hostility! Tell me, Bhavani, who else is so benignant? Most dull-witted and utterly wretched are the men who, even on hearing of such a lord, worship Him not, disabusing themselves of all delusion. "Angada and Hanuman have evidently forced their way into the fort of Lanka," thus observed Ayodhya's lord. Rampaging in Lanka, the two monkeys looked like a pair of Mandaras churning the ocean.