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5 passagesरावणं त्वब्रवीन्मन्त्री प्रहस्तो (प्रहसो) नाम वारुणः । गतः खलु महाराजो ब्रह्मलोकं जलेश्वरः ।। ७.२३.५१ ।।
But a minister named Prahasta (the text also gives the variant Prahasa), a man of Varuna, said to Ravana: “The great king, the lord of the waters, has indeed gone to Brahmaloka.”
गान्धर्वं वरुणः श्रोतुं यं त्वमाह्वयसे युधि । तत्किं तव वृथा वीर परिश्रम्य गते नृपे । ये तु सन्निहिता वीराः कुमारास्ते पराजिताः ।। ७.२३.५२ ।।
'Varuṇa, whom you challenge in battle, has gone to hear a Gandharva performance. So why should there be vain exertion for you, O hero, when the king has gone? But those heroes who are present here, your sons, have been defeated.'
राक्षसेन्द्रस्तु तच्छ्रुत्वा नाम विश्राव्य चात्मनः । हर्षान्नादं विमुञ्चन्वै निष्क्रान्तो वरुणालयात् ।। ७.२३.५३ ।।
Hearing that, the lord of the Rākṣasas proclaimed his own name and, releasing a roar of joy, departed from Varuṇa’s abode.
आगतस्तु पथा येन तेनैव विनिवृत्य सः । लङ्कामभिमुखो रक्षो नभस्तलगतो ययौ ।। ७.२३.५४ ।।
Having returned by the very path by which he had come, that Rākṣasa went through the sky toward Laṅkā.
इत्यार्षे श्रीमद्रामायणे वाल्मीकीये आदिकाव्ये श्रीमदुत्तरकाण्डे त्रयोविंशः सर्गः ।। २३ ।।
Thus ends the twenty-third canto in the revered Uttarakāṇḍa of the revered Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, the Ādikāvya, composed in the ṛṣi tradition. 23.
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