काल पाइ मुनि सुनु सोइ राजा । भयउ निसाचर सहित समाजा ॥
दस-सिर ताहि बीस-भुजदंडा । रावन नाम बीर बरिवंडा ॥
kāla pāi muni sunu soi rājā | bhayau nisācara sahita samājā ||
dasa-sira tāhi bīsa-bhujadaṃḍā | rāvana nāma bīra barivaṃḍā ||
Bala Kanda
Chapter 176: Pratapbhanu is born as Ravana
5 verses · 176 of 361
What happens in this chapter
Pratapbhanu is born as Ravana
Yajnavalkya continues: in time that king was born a rakshasa with all his company. He had ten heads and twenty mighty arms, and was named Ravana, a fierce, powerful hero. The king's younger brother Arimardan became Kumbhakarna, a storehouse of strength. Dharmaruchi, who had been his minister, became his younger half-brother Vibhishana, known to the world as a devotee of Vishnu and a treasury of wisdom. The king's sons and servants became many terrible rakshasas, wicked, able to take any shape, of many kinds, crooked, fearsome and without sense, merciless, violent and sinful, tormentors of the world beyond telling. Though they were born in the line of Pulastya, holy, spotless and matchless, the brahmins' curse made them forms of sin.
भूप अनुज अरिमर्दन नामा । भयउ सो कुम्भकरन बल धामा ॥
सचिव जो रहा धरमरुचि जासू । भयउ बिमात्र-बन्धु लघु तासू ॥
bhūpa anuja arimardana nāmā | bhayau so kumbhakarana bala dhāmā ||
saciva jo rahā dharamaruci jāsū | bhayau bimātra-bandhu laghu tāsū ||
नाम विभीषन जेहि जग जाना । बिष्नु-भगत विज्ञान-निधाना ॥
रहे जे सुत सेवक नृप केरे । भये निसाचर घोर घनेरे ॥
nāma vibhīṣana jehi jaga jānā | biṣnu-bhagata vijñāna-nidhānā ||
rahe je suta sevaka nṛpa kere | bhaye nisācara ghora ghanere ||
काम-रूप खल जिनस अनेका । कुटिल भयङ्कर बिगत-बिबेका ॥
कृपा-रहित हिंसक सब पापी । बरनि न जाहिँ बिस्व परितापी ॥
kāma-rūpa khala jinasa anekā | kuṭila bhayaṅkara bigata-bibekā ||
kṛpā-rahita hiṃsaka saba pāpī | barani na jāhim̐ bisva paritāpī ||
उपजे जदपि पुलस्त्य-कुल, पावन अमल अनूप ।
तदपि महीसुर साप-बस, भये साल अघ-रूप ॥
upaje jadapi pulastya-kula, pāvana amala anūpa |
tadapi mahīsura sāpa-basa, bhaye sāla agha-rūpa ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0