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# Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.9

English (machine translation) 2.9

- **Language:** English

### [2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.2.9)

She whom they call the root cause of the uprooting of the race of night-roamers, / whose crooked-by-nature mind was the counterpart of her body— / that Mantharā pitilessly churned the heart of Kaikeyī, / as a female buffalo churns the clear, cool water of a lotus pond. // 9

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