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whisked it about from house to house, and set fire to the whole city, 

 and escaping from the gate ran to the sea shore and jumped back to the 

 place where he had left the army of the Vannoras. He then returned to 

 Kiskinda, and prostrating himself at the feet of Rama, acquainted him 

 with all the circumstances of his journey, and delivered the emerald he 

 had received from Seta. 



The next day Rama, Luchmun, Soogreva, Hunoomon, Ungada, Neela, 

 Nala, Jumbovanta, Sooshana, (the doctor of the Vannoras,) Gajau, Gunda- 

 madana, Gavantsbha, Vrooshabha, Sarava, &c, with their respective Van- 

 nora forces, marched from the mountain Reshia Mooga Parvut to the shore 

 of the south sea. Vebeshun hearing that Rama had arrived at the opposite 

 coast, advised his brother Ravana to give up Seta, and make his peace with 

 Rama ; but Ravana offended at his advice, turned him out of the city. He 

 sought refuge in the camp of Rama, who promised to place him on the 

 throne of Lunka. 



Nala, the son of fire, then commenced to make a bridge over the sea. 

 He prayed to his father that all the great stones and other heavy articles 

 that were necessary for the work might be deprived of their weight, and 

 float on the sea. This prayer being granted, he soon completed the bridge 

 over which the troops marched to Lunka. Then the giant generals of Ra- 

 vana, named Dhoomraksha, Ukumpana, Vugra Dumsthraw, Prahusta, 

 Utteka, Mohakawe, Koombha, Nikoombha, &c, came and fought against 

 them, but were all slain in one day. In the night, however, Indrajit at- 

 tacked them furiously, with frequent discharges of all kinds of arrows, and 

 by hurling mountains on the heads of the Vannoras, great numbers of whom 

 were killed and wounded, so that Indrajit reported to his father that he had 

 killed them all. 



Jumbovanta consulted with Sooshana, the doctor, what was to be done. 

 The latter replied, " There is a mountain near the North sea* called Sun- 

 jeevy, on which grow three kinds of shrubs named Sunjeevy-kurney, San- 

 dane-kurny, and Souselia-kurny ; send Hunooman to fetch them, otherwise 

 we shall all die." Hunooman flew to the mountain, but after searching 

 on the four sides of the mountain, he was unable to find the shrubs, on ac- 

 count of the darkness of the night, so he took up the mountain in his arms 

 and brought it to Lunka before sunrise, for he was the son of the wind. 

 Then Sooshana, the doctor, gathered medicinal herbs and applied them to 

 the wounds of the Vannoras, who immediately awoke from the sleep of 

 death, and began to hurl the mountains on the houses of the enemy. 

 Koombhakurna, the youngest brother of Ravana, came out with a large 



* Polar Sea, or Arabian ? 



