Shloka 43
पुष्पकविमानवर्णनम्
Description of the Pushpaka Vimana and Ravana’s Inner Palace
याश्च्यवन्तेऽम्बरात्ताराः पुण्यशेषसमावृताः।इमास्तास्सङ्गताः कृत्स्ना इति मेने हरिस्तदा।।5.9.43।।
yāś cyavante 'mbarāt tārāḥ puṇyaśeṣa-samāvṛtāḥ | imās tās saṅgatāḥ kṛtsnā iti mene haris tadā || 5.9.43 ||
Da dachte Hanumān: „Diese Frauen, die hier allesamt beisammen sind, gleichen Sternen, die vom Himmel herabgefallen sind, wenn ihr Vorrat an Verdienst erschöpft ist.“
Seeing those women lying together Hanuman imagined them to be numerous meteors dropped from heaven after enjoying their merits, enjoyed and exhausted.
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It highlights the karmic worldview tied to Dharma: enjoyment and status are impermanent, and when merit is exhausted, beings ‘fall’—a reminder to ground life in Satya and righteous conduct rather than indulgence.
Observing the women asleep in disarray, Hanumān interprets the scene through a moral-cosmic metaphor of fallen stars after merit is spent.
Hanumān’s reflective intelligence: he reads the scene ethically, not voyeuristically, and frames it within a Dharma-informed understanding of impermanence.