Lanka Kaanda
177 - Sri Rama's sport of a frantic wail; Hanuman's return; Laksmana's coming back to consciousness
Chaupais
Description
Transported with joy, Sri Rama embraced Hanuman; for the Lord is exceedingly grateful by nature and supremely wise. The physician (Susena) then immediately applied the remedy and Laksmana cheerfully rose and sat up. The Lord clasped His brother to His heart and the whole host of bears and monkeys was rejoiced. Hanuman took the physician back to Lanka in the same way he had brought him the previous night. When the ten-headed monster heard this news, he beat his head in utter despair again and again. In sore perplexity he called on Kumbhakarna (his younger brother) and succeeded in waking him by using all sorts of devices. Having woken and sat up, he looked like Death himself in a corporeal body. Kumbhakarna asked; "Tell me, brother, why do you look so withered up?" The haughty Ravana told him the whole story as to how he had carried off Sita "Dear brother, the monkeys have killed all the demons and extirpated the greatest warriors. Durmukha, Devantaka (the enemy of gods), Narantaka (the devourer of men), the mighty champions Atikaya (of enormous size) and Akampana (who never trembles in fear) and other heroes like Mahodara (the bigbellied), so staunch in battle, have all fallen on the field of battle."