Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey

Canto 62 - Orgy in the Garden

At length on the same coin

Paid as Dadhimukh trespassers

Went then Hanuman to save them.

Sending Dadhimukh then packing

Goaded Hanuman them for more.

With that go by from Hanuman

Beseeched Angad then his flock

That they could have more of fun.

Vanars at that hailed Hanuman

As well Angad their young prince.

Having got the license thus

Indulged they in wild orgies.

Cared they two hoots for the guards

And chased them out of that garden.

Having had their fill in time

Vanars then had their siesta.

To take the vanars then to task

Guards all regrouped in their scores.

Drove but vanars all of them

Back to their posts in no time.

Fought then vanars mock battles

Honeycombs with those they emptied.

Vanars some were high by then

Made they beds of leaves to sleep.

Faltered they all in their steps

Tried as some to walk a while.

Stumbled as some in mid-course

Stepped them over rest of them.

Inhaled as though laughing gas

Went on laughing some of them.

Twice shy being bitten for once

Staid put guards all in their posts.

Yet vanars all itched for fight

And threw them all in mid-air.

Injured as they fell on ground

Limped all in pain to Dadhimukh.

Annoyed as he with vanars

Addressed thus the chief of guards.

Time it’s not to lose our hearts

Better we regroup ’n fight them.

Bucked up as all by his words

Back they went to trespassers.

Uprooting a tree Dadhimukh

Signalled he the fight on hand.

Lined up guards all then in files

Marched on rampant vanars there.

Followed suit as some their chief

Lifted boulders others there large.

Angad’s vanars there scattered

Turned they sitting ducks all then.

So to save his men Angad

Took on Dadhimukh on his own.

Half drunk by then as Angad

Gave no quarter to Dadhimukh

And hit him hard with fist his strong.

Fell on floor as then Dadhimukh

Who was none but his grandad

Ceased not Angad to hurt him.

Beaten thus by his grandson

Lost his consciousness Dadhimukh.

Woke up Dadhimukh thereafter

Guards he led back to barracks.

Lost no time the Guards-in-Chief

Addressed his men thus aggrieved.

Serves no purpose to fight back

Appraise we might vanar Lord

Of the havoc wrought by these

To the Madhuvan loves he most.

Be it Angad for such foul

He’s not the one to spare.

Got this garden vanar Lord

As a bequeath from his dad

Who in turn got from his dad.

Treats as Madhuvan as his child

Sure this carnage would outrage

Sugreev our Lord no end now.

Count on me to tell Sugreev

That they be all put to death.

Having spoken thus Dadhimukh