Of having ruined the whole world. Know of a truth, Bavan, that it is the Lord, He who has for name the saviour from every calamity, who has now appeared among us.
Again and again I lay my head at your feet and utter this my prayer: have done with pride, arrogance and conceit, and worship Râma. These are the words which Saint Pulastya sent in a message to me, and I have at once taken this opportunity of repeating them to You, Sire.
One of his wisest counsellors, Malyavân, was greatly rejoiced to hear this speech. “Take to heart, my son, this admirable counsel which your brother Vibhishan has given you.” “These two villains who thus magnify my enemies, is there no one here who will rid me of them?” Malyavân thereupon returned home, but Vibhishan with clasped hands spoke yet again: “In everyone’s breast, my lord, so the Vedas and Purânas declare, either wisdom or unwisdom finds a dwelling. Where wisdom dwells, there too is every kind of prosperity; and where unwisdom, there is final destruction. In your breast malignant unwisdom has established herself; you take your friends for enemies and your greatest enemy for a friend, being thus extravagantly enamoured of this Sita, who is the very night of Death for the whole demon race.”
Again and again I lay my head at your feet and utter this my prayer: have done with pride, arrogance and conceit, and worship Râma. These are the words which Saint Pulastya sent in a message to me, and I have at once taken this opportunity of repeating them to You, Sire.
One of his wisest counsellors, Malyavân, was greatly rejoiced to hear this speech. “Take to heart, my son, this admirable counsel which your brother Vibhishan has given you.” “These two villains who thus magnify my enemies, is there no one here who will rid me of them?” Malyavân thereupon returned home, but Vibhishan with clasped hands spoke yet again: “In everyone’s breast, my lord, so the Vedas and Purânas declare, either wisdom or unwisdom finds a dwelling. Where wisdom dwells, there too is every kind of prosperity; and where unwisdom, there is final destruction. In your breast malignant unwisdom has established herself; you take your friends for enemies and your greatest enemy for a friend, being thus extravagantly enamoured of this Sita, who is the very night of Death for the whole demon race.”