{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry389.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry389.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry389.htm","text":"My king Sugriva greets thee fair,\n And bids me thus his rede declare.\n Son of the God of Wind, by name\n Hanum\u00e1n, to this isle I came.\n To set the Maithil lady free\n I crossed the barrier of the sea.\n I roamed in search of her and found\n Her weeping on that lovely ground.\n Then in the lore of duty trained,\n Who hast by stern devotion gained\n This wondrous wealth and power and fame\n Shouldst fear to wrong another's dame.\n \n \n Hear thou my counsel, and be wise:\n No fiend, no dweller in the skies\n Can bear the shafts by Lakshman shot,\n Or R\u00e1ma when his wrath is hot.\n O Giant King, repent the crime\n And soothe him while there yet is time.\n Now be the Maithil queen restored\n Uninjured to her sorrowing lord.\n Soon wilt thou rue thy dire mistake:\n She is no woman but a snake,\n Whose very deadly bite will be\n The ruin of thy house and thee.\n Thy pride has led thy thoughts astray,\n That fancy not a hand may slay\n The monarch of the giants, screened\n From mortal blow of God and fiend.\n Sugr\u00edva still thy death may be:\n No Yaksha, fiend, or God is he\n And R\u00e1ma from a woman springs,\n The mortal seed of mortal kings.\n O think how B\u00e1li fell subdued;\n Think on thy slaughtered multitude.\n Respect those brave and strong allies;\n Consult thy safety, and be wise.\n I, even I, no helper need\n To overthrow, with car and steed,\n Thy city Lank\u00e1 half divine:\n The power but not the will is mine.\n For Raghu's son, before his friend\n Tne V\u00e1nar monarch, strove to end\n With his own conquering arm the life\n Of him who stole his darling wife.\n Turn, and be wise, O R\u00e1van turn;\n Or thou wilt see thy Lank\u00e1 burn,\n And with thy wives, friends, kith and kin\n Be ruined for thy senseless sin.'\n \n \n \n \n422:1 When Hanum\u00e1n was bound with cords Indrajit released his captive from the spell laid upon him by the magic weapon.","title":"BOOK V: Canto LI.: Hanum\u00e1n's Reply.","type":"page"}