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# Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.13

English (machine translation) 3.13

- **Language:** English

### [3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.13)

At that time, having subdued the tutelary goddess of Laṅkā, who had taken the form of a young woman to fight with him and, becoming a bolt across the passage, was fiercely threatening him; and having received her permission as she reported, by the command of the Lotus-seated Brahmā, the destruction of her own abode originating from the humiliation caused by a monkey; Māruti, searching without omission for the princess of Mithilā throughout Laṅkā, reached the palace of the emperor of the rākṣasas.  
There: / "This is the city of the sovereign of the rākṣasas, guarded by the demon army; / this is his palace, bearing a cloud-bank upon its golden pinnacle; / this is the Puṣpaka chariot seized from Kubera"—thus attentively / the night, with the directions illuminated by the lamp-rays of the moon, revealed to Māruti. (13)

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