Storia do Mogor 247.9

247.9

The third incarnation as Rama was to kill the giant Rachanem (Ravanam) and his brothers Bacarnem (Kumbhakarnam) and Vibichinem (Vibhishana) and their armies, made up of innumerable giants, who were always in opposition to the gods, and often derided Vishnu when in the form of Rama. Furthermore, they had deprived him of his wife, and he was unable to find out where she had gone. After many contests and combats, with varying results, Vishnu found he could neither vanquish them nor trace his wife, Sidy (Sita) ; he therefore called on the monkeys to help him against the giants. With their aid he conquered, and found once more his wife after twelve years' captivity. Afterwards, having overheard a washerman say that he was not quite such a fool as the god Vishnu, who had made himself into Rama, and taken back his wife after she had been twelve years in the power of the Lord knows who, he led her back to his home in much dejection, and, leaving her there, he turned pilgrim and wandered the world over.