सुनु सठ सोइ रावन छल-सोला । हर-गिरि जानु जासु भुज-लीला ॥
जान उमापति जासु सुराई । पूजेउँ जेहि सिर-सुमन चढ़ाई ॥
sunu saṭha soi rāvana chala-solā | hara-giri jānu jāsu bhuja-līlā ||
jāna umāpati jāsu surāī | pūjeum̐ jehi sira-sumana car̤hāī ||
Lanka Kanda
Chapter 25: Ravana recounts his own might
5 verses · 25 of 121
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Ravana recounts his own might
Ravana answers: hear, fool, I am that Ravana whose arms played with Shiva's mountain. Uma's lord knows my valour; countless times I cut the lotuses of my heads with my own hands and offered them to Tripurari. The world guardians still ache from my arms. The elephants of the directions know my chest; when I grappled with them their tusks broke on it like radishes. When I walk, the earth rocks like a small boat when a mad elephant climbs in. I am Ravana, famed through the world; have you not heard, babbler? You call such a Ravana small and praise a man. Now I know your wisdom, crude, wicked monkey.
सिर सरोज निज करन्हि उतारी । पूजेउँ अमित बार त्रिपुरारी ॥
भुज विक्रम जानहिँ दिगपाला । सठ अजहूँ जिनके उर साला ॥
sira saroja nija karanhi utārī | pūjeum̐ amita bāra tripurārī ||
bhuja vikrama jānahim̐ digapālā | saṭha ajahūm̐ jinake ura sālā ||
जानहिं दिग्गज उर कठिनाई । जब जन भिरउँ जाइ बरिआई ॥
जिन्ह के दसन कराल न फूटे । उर लागत मूलक इव टूटे ॥
jānahiṃ diggaja ura kaṭhināī | jaba jana bhiraum̐ jāi bariāī ||
jinha ke dasana karāla na phūṭe | ura lāgata mūlaka iva ṭūṭe ||
जासु चलत डोलति इमि धरनी । चढ़त मत्त-गज जिमि लघु तरनी ॥
सोइ रावन जग बिदित प्रतापी । सुनेहि न श्रवन अलीक प्रलापी ॥
jāsu calata ḍolati imi dharanī | car̤hata matta-gaja jimi laghu taranī ||
soi rāvana jaga bidita pratāpī | sunehi na śravana alīka pralāpī ||
तेहि रावन कहँ लघु कहसि, नर कर करसि बखान ।
रे कपि बर्बर खर्ब खल, अब जाना तब ज्ञान ॥
tehi rāvana kaham̐ laghu kahasi, nara kara karasi bakhāna |
re kapi barbara kharba khala, aba jānā taba jñāna ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0