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
Flew to Sugreev with his flock.
In no time did Dadhimukh sight
Lord his Sugreev with his folks.
Having with his aids landed
Headed Dadhimukh to his Lord.
Saw then Sugreev his uncle
Approach him with dull demeanour.
Led then by the boss of theirs
Guards of Madhuvan saluted
Vanar Lord all one by one.
