Poems ✍️

LAVA KUSA (UTTARAKANDA)
"Raksas Sumali among the three,
Here and there he wandered free.
Kaikasi, his daughter, reached the age
He was worried about her marriage."
"He selected Visrava, the Sage,
The one most suitable for her age,
As children born thrU' him
They'll be powerful all the time."
"Before the great stage she stood,
Who was doing Tapas in the wood,
But it was inauspicious time,
When she approached him."
"He told her, the children born,
They'll have qualities of a demon,
Since she came at the wrong hour,
To have children told her desire."
"The first son born looked terrible.
His appearance was so horrible,
With twenty hands and ten faces,
It showed cruelty in all his faces."
"There were bad omens then.
Blood in the form of rain
Showered with thunderbolt,
While the earth rocked out."
"Meteors fell on the ground.
Fierce wind blew around.
High tides rose on the sea.
All bad signs they could see."
"His father, the Sage Visrava
He named his son, Dasagriva,

Since he had ten heads to count,
And was strong like a mount."
"Next Kumbhakarna took birth,
The mightiest one on the earth,
The third one being a daughter,
With an ugly face to look at her."
"The fourth and the last one,
He was Vibhisana, a pious son,
Who was highly self-controlled,
And was of a different mould."
"Thus she had four children,
The first three were demons,
The last one was virtuous
Who studied all the Vedas."