||Sundarakanda ||
|| Sarga 44 (Summary in English)
||om tat sat||
संदिष्टो राक्षसेंद्रेण प्रहस्तस्य सुतो बली।
जंबुमाली महदंष्ट्रो निर्जगाम धनुर्धरः॥1||
स॥ प्रहस्तस्य सुतः महादंष्ट्रः धनुर्धरः बली जंबुमालि राक्षसेंद्रेण संदिष्टः निर्जगाम॥
Ordered by the king of Rakshasas, Jambumali, the powerful son of Prahastha, with big teeth carrying a bow went (for battling Hanuman).
Sundarakanda
Sarga 44
Ordered by the king of Rakshasas, Jambumali, the powerful son of Prahastha, with big teeth carrying a bow went for battling Hanuman.
Jambumali was adorned with garland of red flowers and clothes, wearing a chaplet. With beautiful earrings and big round eyes he was fierce and invincible in war. He quickly left for the battle, with big radiant arrows, with a bow like that of Indra's bow, making loud noise as if thundering like the thunderbolt. The great thundering noises of his bow filled all the directions including the sky and other worlds.
Hanuman endowed with great speed, seeing him come with a chariot drawn by donkeys, was delighted and made a loud noise. The powerful Jambumali hit the great Vanara Hanuman who was standing on the archway with arrows. He troubled the best of Vanaras with a crescent shaped arrow on his face, with ten ear shaped arrows to the head and shoulders. Hit by the arrows his reddish face looked like a full blown lotus in autumn season hit by the rays of Sun. His red face glowing with blood was like a red lotus in the sky sprinkled with drops of red sandal.
Hit by the arrows of the Rakshasa Hanuman was enraged. Then he saw a huge rock on the side. The mighty one, having quickly lifted that rock hurled the same at the Rakshasa. The enraged Rakshasa smashed that rock with ten arrows.
The fierce warrior Hanuman seeing that action being thwarted, saw a big tree, pulled out the same and started whirling. Seeing the mighty Vanara whirling the Sala tree, the mighty Jambumali attacked Hanuman with many arrows. He cut off the tree with four arrows, and hit Vanara with five arrows on his shoulder, one arrow on his chest and ten arrows below the chest.
With arrows all over his body, angry Hanuman took the same iron spear and started whirling again. Hanuman of immeasurable strength, with great speed whirling the iron spear threw it at the chest of Jambumali. Then his head was not seen. No shoulders, no knees, no chariot, or the horses were seen. Nothing was left. With all parts of his body smashed to pieces, thus killed the mighty Jambumali quickly fell on the ground.
Ravana hearing the death of Jambumali and the Kinkaras became enraged with blood oozing out of his eyes.
As the mighty Jambumali was killed, the Rakshasa king with his eyes red and rolling in anger ordered the sons of the ministers who are highly valiant warriors.
Thus ends the forty fourth Sarga of Sundarakanda in Ramayana the very first poem composed in Sanskrit by the first poet sage Valmiki.
||om tat sat||
स रोषसंवर्तित ताम्र लोचनः
प्रहस्तपुत्रे निहते महाबले।
अमात्यपुत्रान् अतिवीर्यविक्रमान्
समादिदेशाशु निशाचरेश्वरः॥20||
स॥ सः निशाचरेश्वरः रोषसंवर्तित ताम्रलोचनः महाबले प्रहस्तपुत्रे निहते अमात्यपुत्रान् अतिवीर्य विक्रमान् आशु समादिदेश ॥
As the mighty Jambumali was killed, the Rakshasa king with his eyes red and rolling in anger ordered the sons of the ministers, who are highly valiant warriors.
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