Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey - Page 101/126

Beasts in woods all in their scores

Sauntered in groves that were thick.

Home it made all Gandharvas

Home away home for all of them.

Herbs it all had so myriad

Made they medicines that varied.

Set as Hanuman his huge foot

Rocks all got to pebbles reduced.

In his bid to sail across

Grew he further frame his large.

Sighted Hanuman sea across

Crossed that he to reach Lanka.

On his return trip to home

Veteran like he then took-off.

With the pressure it came to bear

Sank then Arishta deep in ground.

Pressed as Arishta to its core

Caved in with groan ocean bed.

Lost as Arishta its bearing

Trees then there got uprooted.

With their fate as thus got sealed

Roared lions all there in distress.

Flew as Gandharv women all there

Slipped their pallus off their breasts.

Serpents there lay furlongs long

Curled in pits of square foot then.

Angels all then came to rest

On its lovely peak foremost,

With that havoc of take-off

Took flight all of them in fright.

In time only seen was tip

Of that Arishta of great girth.

Left no trace of its glory

At length that peach of mountains.

Unmindful of that havoc

Had a smooth sail back Hanuman.