Полный четырёхтомник Манматхи Натха Датта, английский, Калькутта, 1891–1894. Все четыре тома конкретного перевода М. Н. Датта: Балаканда, Айодхьяканда, Араньяканда, Кишкиндхаканда, Сундараканда, Юддхаканда и Уттараканда. Полный текст выбранного четырёхтомного издания; это не собрание всех версий Рамаяны.
Все четыре тома конкретного перевода М. Н. Датта: Балаканда, Айодхьяканда, Араньяканда, Кишкиндхаканда, Сундараканда, Юддхаканда и Уттараканда. Полный текст выбранного четырёхтомного издания; это не собрание всех версий Рамаяны.
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"And as clouds assail a mountain with showers, then the Rākshasas,
representing clouds, setting up shouts, began to assail Nārāyana
representing a mountain. And Vishnu of a bright brown-blue hue, being
surrounded by the flower of the night-rangers with dark visages,
resembled the mountain, Anjana, on which the clouds pour down. And as
locusts (flood) a field, gnats (throng) about a flame, gad-flies
(cluster) around a pot of honey, or _makaras_ (range) the deep, so the
shafts shot by the bows of the Rakhas, having (the energy of) the
thunder-bolt and endowed with (the velocity of) the wind or thought,
pierce Hari as if at the universal dissolution. And those mounted on
cars (assailed him) with their cars, and those mounted on the backs of
elephants (assailed him) with their elephants, and those riding horses
(assailed him) with their horses, and the foot-soldiers attacked him,
stationed in the sky; and the foremost of Rākshasas resembling
mountains, by means of darts, _rishtis_ and _tomaras_, suspended the
respiration of Hari even as the _prānāyāma_²⁷ doth that of a twice-born
one. On being sore tried by the night-rangers, like the great Ocean by
the fishes (residing in it), that invincible one, taking his _Sārnga_,
showered shafts among the Rākshasas. And with sharpened arrows
resembling the thunder, and endowed with the velocity of the wind, shot
from his bow drawn to its fullest stretch, Vishnu cut off (Rākshasas) by
hundreds and by thousands. And dashing away (the Rākshasa ranks) with
his arrowy shower, even as the wind aroused dasheth away a downpour,
that best of male beings blew his mighty conch—Pānchajanya. And winded
by Hari with his utmost might, that water-sprung king of conchs, endowed
with terrific blares, roared, as if afflicting the three worlds. And the
sounds of that king of conchs struck terror into the Rākshasas, even as
in a mighty forest a lion (strikes terror into the hearts of) elephants
in rut. And thereat the horses could not keep their ground, and the
elephants were reft of their temporal flow, and shorn of their virtue at
the roars of the conch, heroes began to topple down from their cars. And
dight with dainty feathered parts having heads, the shafts discharged
from the _Sārnga_, resembling thunder-bolts, riving those Rakshas,
entered the earth. And in that conflict, pierced by the arrows
discharged from Nārāyana’s arm, the Rākshasas began to drop to the
ground like mountains struck with the thunder-bolt. And the wounds on
the persons of the foes inflicted by the discus of Vishnu discharge
blood in streams, like mountains discharging streams of red chalk. And
the sounds of that king of conchs, as well as those of the _Sārnga_,
combined with the roars emitted by Vishnu himself, swallowed up the
roars of the Rākshasas. And Hari by means of his shafts cut off their
necks, and arrows, and standards, and bows, and cars, and ensigns, and
quivers. And like fierce rays streaming about from the sun, like
torrents dashing from the ocean, like elephants coming down a mountain,
or like showers descending from clouds, the shafts shot by Nārāyana
pursue (the foes) by hundreds and by thousands. And even as an elephant
pursueth a tiger, a tiger a wolf, a wolf a dog, a dog a cat, a cat a
snake, or a snake a rat, so the mighty Vishnu pursueth the Rākshasa
host; and others, (struck down by him), measure their lengths on the
ground. Then, having despatched thousands of Rākshasas, the destroyer of
Madhu blew his water-sprung (conch), even as the sovereign of the
celestials filleth clouds (with rain). And agitated by the arrows of
Nārāyana, with their senses bewildered by the blares of the conch, the
broken Rākshasa forces made for Lankā. And on the Rākshasa army having
been broken in consequence of the beating it got at the hands of
Nārāyana, Sumāli with showers of shafts resisted Hari in the encounter;
and as a mist envelopes the Sun, he enveloped him (with his arrows).
Thereat, the Rākshasas again summoned up their fortitude. And fired with
rage, that Rākshasa, inflated with insolence on account of his strength,
setting up a tremendous roar, darted at his antagonist in the conflict,
thereby seeming to revive the Rākshasas. And as an elephant flourishes
its trunk, that Rākshasa, lifting up his arm adorned with ornaments,
began to roar from rapture, like a mass of clouds lighted up with
lightning. And (Vishnu) cut off the head flaming with ear-rings of the
charioteer of the shouting Sumāli; and thereat the horses of that
Rākshasa aimlessly strayed hither and thither. And with his bewildered
steeds Sumāli wanders like a person deprived of patience, whose senses
are under a hallucination. And on Sumāli’s car being drawn at random by
his steeds, Māli, taking his bow and equipped therewith, darted at
Vishnu’s car and assailed that mighty-armed one as he was descending on
the field of fight. And like birds entering the Krauncha,²⁸ the arrows
discharged from Māli’s bow, graced with gold, hit Hari and entered (into
his body). And thereat, as a person holding his senses under subjection
is not thrown out of his mental balance, Vishnu, assailed in that
encounter with thousands of arrows shot by Māli, was not disturbed ever
so little. And then that creator of all beings, the reverend
Gadādhara,²⁹ twanging his bow-string, showered vollies of shafts on
Māli. And getting at Māli’s body, the arrows furnished with the
luminousness of lightning, drink his blood, like unto serpents drinking
nectar. And baffling Māli, the holder of the conch, discus, and mace,
brought down Māli’s crown, standard, bow and steeds. And then that
foremost of night-rangers, on being deprived of his car, sprang forward,
mace in hand, even as a lion bounds up from the brow of a hillock. And
he with his mace smote at the forehead of that lord of birds, even as
the Destroyer had smitten Içāna,³⁰ or as Indra smiteth a mountain with
his thunder-bolt. On being severely struck by Māli with his mace,
Garuda, writhing in torments, moved the god away from the field of
battle. On the god having been removed from the field by Māli as well as
Garuda, there arose a mighty din of Rakshas roaring (in chorus). And
hearing the cheers of the Rakshas, Indra’s younger brother, the reverend
Hari, sitting awry on that lord of birds, albeit moved off from the
scene of conflict, waxing enraged, from a desire of slaying (Māli)
hurled his disc at him. And thereat the disc, possessed of the splendour
of the solar disc, and resembling the wheel³¹ itself of Kāla, flooding
all the heavens with radiance, brought down Māli’s head to the ground.
And that head of the lord of Rākshasas, terrific to behold, on being cut
off (by Vishnu), vomitting blood, fell down before (the Rākshasas), as
formerly Rāhu’s head’ had fallen. And then the deities experiencing
excess of joy set up leonine cheers with might and main,
crying,—’Excellent, O god.’ Seeing Māli slain, Sumāli and Malyavān,
burning in grief, fled precipitately towards Lankā along with their
forces. And Garuda, being cheered, turned round, and growing enraged, as
before drove the Rākshasas with the wind of his wings. And (some) with
their lotus-faces cut by the discus, (some) with their chests crushed
with the mace, (some) with their necks torn off by the plough, (some)
with their heads riven by the club, and some hewn by the sword, and
others pierced by arrows, the Rākshasas began to drop fast from the sky
into the waters of the ocean. And as the thunder-bolt with lightning
(riveth) a mighty mass of clouds, Nārāyana by means of the thunder-bolts
of his arrows discharged from his bow, rived the night-rangers with
their hair dishevelled and streaming (in the wind). And the forces
having their umbrellas rent, their arms falling off, their goodly
garments scattered, their entrails coming out and their eyes
rolling,—became incapable of distinguishing their own party from that of
the foe. And even like (the roars and the vehemence) displayed by
elephants on being attacked by lions, the roars and the vehemence of the
night-rangers and their elephants, sore assailed by the Primaeval
Lion,³² were equal. And driven by Hari’s networks of arrows, and
discharging (all the while) their own showers of shafts, those
night-rangers resembling the clouds of doom, are driven like the
veritable clouds of the universal dissolution drifted by the wind. And
hewn in twain with swords, the foremost Rākshasas fell like unto hills
(toppling headlong). And the Earth was seen to be (covered) with
night-rangers resembling dark clouds, adorned with jewelled necklaces
and ear-rings,—falling down,—as if covered with dark mountains dropping
down."
²⁷ The practice of regulating respiration and finally suspending the
same. This is practised by the Yogis of India, who attribute
wonderful virtues to it.—T.
²⁸ The mountain so named.
²⁹ Lit. _the holder of the mace_, a name of Vishnu.
³⁰ There took place an encounter between Rudra and Yama in the Sweta
forest, for the protection of Mārkandeya and a certain king. In
this battle, Yama had smitten Rudra. This is narrated in the
Purānas.—T.
³¹ The wheel of Kāla or Time, representing the Reaper consists,
remarks Rāmānuja, of days, months, years, decades, centuries,
aeons, _etc._—T.
³² Vishnu as a _man-lion_ had formerly taken the conceit out of
Hiranyakaçipu—the Asura king—and slain him, to rid his
devotee—Prahlāda—of his mortal foe in the form of a father.—T.
SECTION VIII.
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