“Râma is the very soul of truth; your courtiers, my lord, are overpowered by fate; I will now take refuge with Raghu-bir; lay no blame to me.”
After Vibhishan had left with these words, it was all over with everyone of them. Disrespect to a saint, Bhavani, brings speedy ruin on the most prosperous undertaking. As soon as Vibhishan had left, Bavan lost all his glory and good fortune. But he rejoiced as he went to meet Râma, and revolved in his mind many agreeable anticipations: “I am about to behold His lotus feet, so roseate, so soft, so beneficent to all who wait upon them; at whose touch the Rishi’s wife was delivered from the curse and the Dandaka forest was sanctified; feet that Sita cherished in her bosom, even while they ran to seize the delusive deer; lotus feet in Siva’s lake-like heart; how blest am I who am now about to see them!
After Vibhishan had left with these words, it was all over with everyone of them. Disrespect to a saint, Bhavani, brings speedy ruin on the most prosperous undertaking. As soon as Vibhishan had left, Bavan lost all his glory and good fortune. But he rejoiced as he went to meet Râma, and revolved in his mind many agreeable anticipations: “I am about to behold His lotus feet, so roseate, so soft, so beneficent to all who wait upon them; at whose touch the Rishi’s wife was delivered from the curse and the Dandaka forest was sanctified; feet that Sita cherished in her bosom, even while they ran to seize the delusive deer; lotus feet in Siva’s lake-like heart; how blest am I who am now about to see them!