{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry461.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry461.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry461.htm","text":"But haughty Kumbhakarna spurned\n His counsel, and to R\u00e1van turned:\n 'Thy life from peril will I free\n And slay the foe who threatens thee.\n A hero never vaunts in vain,\n Like bellowing clouds devoid of rain,\n Nor, Monarch, be thine ear inclined\n To counsellors of slavish kind,\n Who with mean arts their king mislead\n And mar each gallant plan and deed.\n O, let not words like his beguile\n The glorious king of Lanka's isle.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 Thus scornful Kumbhakarna cried,\n And R\u00e1van with a laugh replied:\n 'Mahodar fears and fain would shun\n The battle with Ikshvaku's son.\n Of all my giant warriors, who\n Is strong as thou, and brave and true?\n Ride, conqueror, to the battle ride,\n And tame the foeman's senseless pride.\n Go forth like Yama to the field,\n And let thine arm thy trident wield.\n Scared by the lightning of thine eye\n The Vanar hosts will turn and fly;\n And Rama, when he sees thee near,\n With trembling heart will own his fear.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 The champion heard, and, well content,\n Forth from the hall his footsteps bent.\n He grasped his spear, the foeman's dread,\n Black iron all, both shaft and head.\n Which, dyed in many a battle, bore\n Great spots of slaughtered victims' gore.\n The king upon his neck had thrown\n The jewelled chain which graced his own.\n And garlands of delicious scent\n About his limbs for ornament.\n Around his arms gay bracelets clung,\n And pendants in his ears were hung.\n Adorned with gold, about his waist\n His coat of mail was firmly braced,\n And like N\u00e1r\u00e1yan \u00a01b or the God\n Who rules the sky he proudly trod.\n Behind him went a mighty throng\n Of giant warriors tall and strong,\n \n \n On elephants of noblest breeds.\n With cars, with camels, and with steeds:\n And, armed with spear and axe and sword\n Were fain to battle for their lord. \u00a01\n \n \n \n \n476:1b A name of Vishn'u.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto LXV.: Khumbhakarna's Speech.","type":"page"}