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SETUBANDHA
62. 'Or, witness Lanka pulled down by my arms even today, like a creeper clinging to the Suvela, with the branches, the demons, smashed down, and only a tender shoot, Sītā,48 left over.
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63. 'Frenzied by my devotion to Rāma, I will crush Lankā as does a wild elephant a forest: (Lanka) that will be safe owing to the lion, Rāvana, being killed, with the trees, the demons, knocked down.'
The Suvela will thus take the place of the Malaya and vice versa, and it will be unnecessary for the army to cross over to Lanka which is situated on the Suvela!
48. Held captive in Lanka.
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