||Sri Ram Jayram Jaya Jaya Ram||

Chapter -70 – Dhoha -69

Ravana's atrocities on the Earth 

Ravana called for his elder son Meghanatha and advised him to use his prowess against the enemies, he asked him to use all his powers against the deities who are skilled in war techniques and imprison them. Meghanatha sincerely followed the command of his father, in this way the mighty Ravana holding his mace ordered his people, while he was walking the Earth trembled, while he produces boisterous voices the wives of the deities lost their fetus. Ravana’s arrival to the abode of deities forced them to hide in the caves of Mount Sumeru. Dhashanan went to attack the marvelous abode of Dikpalakas found it uninhabited. He produced roar like a lion and invited the deities to fight against him, showered abuses upon them. He constantly went in search for the opponent to fight against him, he found no one in the world. He intentionally harassed Indra, Surya, Chandra, Varuna, Vayu, Agni, Kubera, Yama, Kala, deities, Kinnaras, Siddhas, Humans, Naga etc.. All the creations of Bhrama, those male and female were under the influence of Dhashanan, all were extremely frightful of Ravana and followed his order sincerely, and prostrates before him. He conquered the whole world with his power, he did not let anyone free, ruled the world as the King of the Kings according to his own will. He married to the daughters of  Deva, Yaksha, Gandharva, Manushya, Kinnara, and Naga, and all those beautiful young women in the three worlds.

Indhrajith performed all that tasks desired by his father; he had the foresightedness of his father. The dreadful demons are sinners, had massive bodily appearances, and harassed the deities.  They wander during the darkest hours of the nights, assume various forms with their illusionary powers, and engage in various atrocities, they have performed all those tasks to oppose the deities. They took great effort to uproot the righteousness, the villages of twice-born, and the places of cowsheds were burnt into ashes. There were no auspicious rites in the world, they do not respect deities, twice-born and preceptors, there was no place for devotion to Lord Hari, Yaga, Tapas, or lectures or lessons of Veda and scriptures, people were forbidden to listen to Veda and scriptures. The atrocities of these wicked demons were indescribable; they took great pleasure in violence and endless sinful deeds.

Lord Mahadeva speaks “ Oh! Devi, the city of Lanka became a storehouse of all the wicked and immoral deeds, it has become the dwelling place of gamblers, thieves, deceitful who took custody of other’s wealth and wives. People do not respect parents or preceptor or worship deities or respect the saintly men and ascetics. They forced the saintly men to work hard and employed them in odd jobs. Oh! Bhavani, people who are performing all these atrocities are addressed as demons. The mother Earth was extremely terrified and grieved over the destruction of righteousness on the Earth, she spoke to herself “ Oh! The weight of the ocean, mountains, rivers, and hills does not cause heaviness to me, I cannot hold on the weight of the demons on the Earth.” She was scared of Ravana, could not speak out of those immoralities. She assumed the form of a cow and went to the caves of Sumeru where deities and sages were taking shelter, she shed tears of intense grief and described her sufferings, unfortunately, these deities and Sages were not in a position to relieve mother Earth from her sufferings.