Agnipurana 9

English (machine translation) 9

Language: English

9.1 — 1 part
9.13 — 3 parts
9.26 — 1 part
9.31 — 3 parts

9.1

Nārada said:
Having heard the words of Sampāti, Hanumān, Aṅgada and the others, / seeing the ocean, said: "Who indeed could cross the ocean? Who could save [our] lives?"

9.2

For the preservation of the monkeys' lives and for the accomplishment of Rāma's mission, / that son of Marut leaped across the ocean, one hundred yojanas wide.

9.3

Having seen Maināka risen, and having struck down Siṃhikā, / and having seen Laṅkā, the dwellings of the rākṣasas, and in the women's quarters,

9.4

in the house of the Ten-necked one (Daśagrīva), of Kumbha, of Kumbhakarṇa the rākṣasa, / of Vibhīṣaṇa, of Indrajit, and in the houses of other rākṣasas,

9.5

he did not see Sītā in the drinking halls and elsewhere. Filled with anxiety, / having gone to the Aśoka grove, he saw beneath a śiṃśapā tree

9.6

Sītā guarded by rākṣasīs, and Rāvaṇa saying: "Become my wife!", / while he stood in the śiṃśapā tree, and Sītā saying: "No!"

9.7

And the rākṣasīs saying: "Become the wife of Rāvaṇa!"
When Rāvaṇa had departed, the monkey said: "There was a king Daśaratha.

9.8

His excellent sons are Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, who went to live in the forest. / You are Rāma's wife, Jānakī, carried off by Rāvaṇa by force.

9.9

Rāma, allied with Sugrīva, searching for you, dispatched me. / Take indeed this token ring given by Rāma."

9.10

Sītā took the ring. She saw the son of Marut in the tree. / Sitting once again before her, he said to her: "If he lives,

9.11

why does Rāma not lead [you] away?" To her who was doubtful, the monkey said: / "O Sītā, Rāma does not know; once he knows, he will take you away,

9.12

having slain the rākṣasa Rāvaṇa along with his army. O lady, do not grieve! / Give me a token [for him]." Sītā gave a crest-jewel to the monkey

9.13

and said: "Act in such a way that Rāma may take me away quickly.

9.13.p2

1. "rāmaś ca" is the reading of the manuscript marked kha.

9.13.p3

2. "tvāṃ mārgayet preṣayecca mām" is the reading of the manuscript marked gha. / [Page 21]

9.13_2

Go back [with] the story of the piercing of the crow's eye, O dispeller of grief!"

9.14

Taking the jewel and the story, Hanumān said: "Your husband will take you away. / Or if there is any haste for you, mount upon my back, O auspicious lady!

9.15

Today I will show you to the descendant of Raghu together with Sugrīva." / Sītā said to Hanumān: "Let the descendant of Raghu indeed take me away."

9.16

Hanumān devised a means to see the Ten-necked one: / he laid waste to the grove, having slain its guardians with teeth, nails, and other weapons.

9.17

Having slain all the kiṅkaras and also the seven sons of the ministers, / and the prince, his son Akṣa, Śakrajit bound him.

9.18

With the serpent-noose he bound the yellow-eyed one and presented him to Rāvaṇa. / Rāvaṇa said: "Who are you?" The son of Marut said to Rāvaṇa:

9.19

"I am the messenger of Rāma. Give Sītā to the descendant of Raghu, [or] you will die, / surely slain by Rāma's arrows together with the rākṣasas dwelling in Laṅkā."

9.20

Rāvaṇa, prepared to kill him, was restrained by Vibhīṣaṇa. / He set fire to [Hanumān's] tail; with his tail blazing, that son of Marut,

9.21

having burnt Laṅkā and the rākṣasas, having seen Sītā and bowed to her, / came to the shore of the ocean and said: "Sītā has been seen!"

9.22

to Aṅgada and the others. Having drunk honey in Madhuvana with Aṅgada and the rest, / and having defeated Dadhimukha and the others, they saw Rāma and said:

9.23

"Sītā has been seen!" Rāma too, delighted, questioned the son of Marut: / "How was Sītā seen by you, and what did she say to me?

9.24

Sprinkle me, who have entered the fire of passion, with the nectar of news of Sītā!" / Hanumān said to Rāma: "Having crossed the ocean, I have returned,

9.25

having seen Sītā and burnt the city. Take indeed Sītā's jewel! / Having slain Rāvaṇa, you will regain Sītā, O Rāma; do not grieve!"

9.26

Taking that jewel, Rāma wept, tormented by separation:

9.26_2

"Having seen the jewel, Jānakī has been seen by me! Sītā! Lead me [to her]!

9.27

Without her I cannot live." Consuled by Sugrīva and the others, / he went to the seashore. There Vibhīṣaṇa came to Rāma,

9.28

having departed, reviled by his evil-minded brother Rāvaṇa / who was told: "Give Sītā to Rāma!" Thus he was without any supporter.

9.29

Rāma consecrated as an ally Vibhīṣaṇa in the sovereignty of Laṅkā. / Begging the ocean for a passage, when it did not appear, then with arrows

9.30

Rāma pierced it. And the ocean, having come, said: / "Having built a bridge across the ocean with Nala, go to Laṅkā. Deep

was I made by you in former times." Rāma too, by means of Nala's bridge / made of trees, rocks, and other materials, went to the far shore of the great ocean. / Stationed on Mount Suvela together with the monkeys, he beheld Laṅkā.

9.31.p1

Thus, in the first great Purāṇa, the Āgneya, in the Rāmāyaṇa, the description of the Sundarakāṇḍa, being the ninth chapter.

9.31.p3

Now begins the tenth chapter.

9.31.p4

Description of the incarnation of the blessed Rāma.

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