Aug 18, 2007

Chapter 90: Hanuman sets Lanka on fire

H bids adieu to Sita, but is hungry. So he decides to eat fruits in AV. News reaces Ravana that AV is being eaten away by a Monkey Man. Same time, his son, Akshkumar comes back from training. Ravana asks him to take care of H. H looks at him and says “You are so much of a child. Go, drink milk and play. I wanna meet you poppy.” Aksh challenges him. H easily kills him. News reaches Ravana. Mandodhari cries when she sees the servants lay down her son’s dead body.

Meghnath, the other son is willing to fight. Mandodhari refuses. Ravana says “Say Revenge. Not Sorrow.” So off goes Meghnath.

Intro before fight between Meghnath (Indra winner) and Hanuman (Ram bhakth). A fight ensues. Clearly Hanuman winning, when Meghnath uses Brahmasuthra (powerful Brahma chant). As a mark of respect to Brahma, Hanuman gets caught, and is taken to Ravana, where he makes a mockery of Ravana, saying “I didn’t get caught. I respected Brahma. Moreover, I wanted to see the coward who got a woman kidnapped, was beaten by Sahasrabahu and Vaali.” Ravana is infuriated. H asks for a chair. Laughingly, Ravana refuses. So, H grows his tail so long that it winds itself over and over again and a man-mad thrown-like structure made-of-tail gets created, at about the same height of Ravana’s thrown, who is annoyed by all this, especially when H says Ravana is not well-bred for king.

Ravana asks why he has come here. H replies. Ravana wants to punish him. “Why”, asks H. “Just for eating fruits in AV? After all I am a monkey.” Still Ravana asks all to fight against H. A big fight ensues. Vib comes and stops it all. He says that fighting in palace is bad for a king especially fighting a messenger from an enemy.

Ravana agrees. His punishment against Hanuman is to set his tail on fire. All do so, and all laugh. But once its done, all realize its mistake. H goes on a firing-spree and enlights and engulfs the whole of Lanka on fire and when the whole island is ablaze with fire, he sets off his tail fire with the help of sea water. He then visits AV one last time, bids bye to Sita and asks something from her which will prove to Rama that he has indeed met her. She gives him her hair clip which was given by KK. She also tells that if he delays more than one month, then she would have committed a suicide since Ravan would force her to marry in exactly one month.

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