Ravana’s yellow eyes grew red with anger and the peaceful face changed, and he took his own horrid shape, ten-faced and twenty-armed; he seized that gentle thing by the hair and limbs, and sprang into his golden ass-drawn car, and rose up into the sky. But she cried aloud to Lakshman and Rama. " And O thou forest and flowery trees," she cried, " and thou Godaveri, and woodland deities, and deer, andbirds, I conjure you to tell my lord that Ravana has stolen me away."
Then she saw the great vulture Jatayu on a tree, and prayed to him for help ; he woke from sleep and, seeing Ravana andSita, spoke soft words to the rakshasa, advising him to leave his evil course. Jatayu warned him that Rama would surely avenge the wrong with death, " and while I live thou shalt not take away the virtuous Sita, but I will fight with thee and fling thee from thy car." Then Ravan, with angry eyes, sprang upon Jatayu, and there was a deadly battle in the sky; many weapons he showered on Jatayu, while the king of birds wounded Ravana with beak and talons. So many arrows pierced Jatayu that he seemed like a bird half hidden in a nest; but he broke with his feet two bows of Ravana s, and destroyed the sky-faringcar, so that Ravana fell down on to the earth, with Sita on his lap. But Jatayu by then was weary, and Ravana sprang up again and fell upon him, and with a dagger cut away his wings, so that he fell down at the point of death. . . . . .
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Dinesh said:
Then she saw the great vulture Jatayu on a tree, and prayed to him for help ; he woke from sleep and, seeing Ravana andSita, spoke soft words to the rakshasa, advising him to leave his evil course. Jatayu warned him that Rama would surely avenge the wrong with death, " and while I live thou shalt not take away the virtuous Sita, but I will fight with thee and fling thee from thy car." Then Ravan, with angry eyes, sprang upon Jatayu, and there was a deadly battle in the sky; many weapons he showered on Jatayu, while the king of birds wounded Ravana with beak and talons. So many arrows pierced Jatayu that he seemed like a bird half hidden in a nest; but he broke with his feet two bows of Ravana s, and destroyed the sky-faringcar, so that Ravana fell down on to the earth, with Sita on his lap. But Jatayu by then was weary, and Ravana sprang up again and fell upon him, and with a dagger cut away his wings, so that he fell down at the point of death. . . . . .
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