Rasarnavasudhakara 2.337
English (machine translation) 2.337
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2.337
“Unable with his agitated eyes to endure the sight of him,
as if of the sun with its thousand rays,
Indra entered the interior of a cave-dwelling on the golden mountain
and spent his days in fear.”
2.337.p1
|| [Śiśupālavadha 1.53]
2.337.p2
Here, it should not be suspected: ‘How can Indra have superior status, since he is described as being a middling character because of the description of his fear toward Rāvaṇa, who is being described as superior?’ For natural character alone is the cause of people's superior status, not a [poet's] description. If description were the cause, then stating emotions such as fierceness toward Rāvaṇa, who is superior as the object of description, by lines like “afflicted without fault by that darling…” (Śiśupālavadha 1.61) would be inappropriate. Therefore, fear on the part of Indra, even though he is of superior character, is logically justified toward Rāvaṇa because of his being terrifying through the power of a superhuman boon.
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- Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit