Shirdi Sai Baba Stories,Leelas and Teachings.: Ram Vijaya-Chapter 43.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Ram Vijaya-Chapter 43.

Share Author: Manisha.Rautela.Bisht on 12:37 PM

Dear all

Here is chapter-43 from the book Ram Vijaya. Readers who have missed out any chapter can read them by clicking on the link provided below this chapter . Jai Sai Ram.

Ram Vijaya-Chapter 43.

Ravana was in a confused state of mind, and did not know what to do, when his minister, Vidya, advised him to write a letter to his uncles, Ahiravana and Mahiravana, in Patal. Whereupon the demon-king wrote to them, called them to see him at his palace and informed them of his misfortune and distress, when they encouraged him and said, " You need not be alarmed. We shall carry off Rama and Lakshuman to Patal today at midnight and sacrifice them to our goddess."

The ministers of Vibhishan overheard what had passed between Ravana and the demons and communicated it to their master. Whereupon Vibhishan told Maruti, Nala, Nila, Sugriva and other monkeys to guard Rama and Lakshuman during the night. All the monkeys, therefore, made a fortification of their tails and, placing in it the princes on a cot, guarded them.

At midnight Ahiravana and Mahiravana came there and were greatly surprised at the curious fortification. But there being no way to get in, they excavated the earth ; and through that excavation they carried off the princes with the cot to Mahikavati in Patal, where they put them in trance and confined them in a house. They had posted twenty kotis of demons under the command of Makardwaja to watch the mouth of the excavation which was near the sea in Patal.

At the dawn of the day all the monkeys at Suvela went to visit Rama,when they found, to their great surprise, that the cot disappeared with Rama and Lakshuman. They saw the excavation and the footprints of the demons, from which they concluded that the demons had carried off the princes through that hollow. All the monkeys were greatly alarmed, and did not know what to do, but, in the mean time, Vibhishan came and told them not to make a noise about it, because if Ravana knew of their position, he would attack them and kill them all in no time.

The monkeys with Vibhishan met together and asked Maruti whether he could go through the excavation and trace the whereabouts of Rama and Lakshuman. " Even at the risk of my life I will get Rama and Lakshuinan back," replied Maruti. Having thus spoken Maruti entered the excavation with Nala, Nila, Angada, and Jambuvant and went through it to the sea -shore half dead, where they refreshed themselves with a fresh breeze. Looking at the large numbers of the demons they disguised themselves as Fakirs*[mendicants] and asked the monsters to show them the way that led to Mahikavati.

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