kou na hamŒre ¡ ka¢aka asa to sana larata jo soha.23(B). pr¶ti birodha samŒna sana karia n¶ti asi Œh¶, jau¡ m¾gapati badha me˛ukanhi bhala ki kahai kou tŒhi.23(C). jadyapi laghutŒ rŒma kahu ¡ tohi badhe ¡ baRa doƒa, tadapi ka¢hina dasaka¯¢ha sunu chatra jŒti kara roƒa.23(D). 830 * ÝR” RMACARITAMNASA* bakra ukti dhanu bacana sara h¾daya daheu ripu k¶sa, pratiuttara saRasinha manahu¡ kŒRhata bha¢a dasas¶sa.23(E). ha¡si boleu dasamauli taba kapi kara baRa guna eka, jo pratipŒlai tŒsu hita karai upŒya aneka.23(F). “It seems true that the monkey set fire to your capital without receiving an order from his master. That is why he did not go back to Sugr¶va and remained in hiding for fear. All that you say, RŒva˜a, is true and I am not in the least angry at hearing it. There is none in our army who would fight you with any amount of grace. Make friends or enter into hostilities only with your equals: this is a sound maxim to follow. If a lion were to kill frogs, will anyone speak well of him? Though it would be derogatory on the part of Ýr¶ RŒma to kill you and He will incur great blame thereby, yet, mark me, RŒva˜a, the fury of the Kƒatriya race is hard to face.” The monkey (A˘gada) burnt the enemy’s heart with shafts of speech shot forth from the bow of sarcasm; and the ten-headed hero proceeded to extract the arrows, so to speak, with pairs of pincers in the form of rejoinders. He laughed and said: “A monkey possesses one great virtue: it does everything in its power to serve him who maintains it.” (23 A—F)