Shloka 54
कुम्भकर्णोपदेशः
Kumbhakarna’s Counsel and War-Boast to Ravana
शतक्रतुंवधिष्यामिपास्यामिवरुणालयम् ।।6.63.54।।पर्वतांश्चूर्णयिष्यामिदारयिष्यामिमेदिनीम् ।
śatakratuṃ vadhiṣyāmi pāsyāmi varuṇālayam |
parvatāṃś cūrṇayiṣyāmi dārayiṣyāmi medinīm ||6.63.54||
「シャタクラトゥ（インドラ）を討ち、ヴァルナの住まう大海を飲み干し、山々を粉塵に砕き、この大地そのものを裂いてみせよう。」
"O King! Now you drink wine, give up agony and start with work. Now Rama will be going to the abode of Yama sent by me. Sita will submit to you for long."।। ityārṣēvālmīkīyēśrīmadrāmāyaṇēādikāvyēyuddhakāṇḍēṣṭitamassargaḥ ।।This is the end of the sixty third sarga of Yuddha Kanda of the first epic the holy Ramayana composed by sage Valmiki.
FAQs
The verse functions as a warning-example: unrestrained pride and violence (adharma) inflate the self beyond moral limits, opposing the dharmic ideal of self-control.
Kumbhakarṇa, awakened and preparing to fight, proclaims exaggerated, world-shaking threats to display his might.
Not a virtue but a vice: arrogance and destructive rage, contrasted implicitly with dharmic restraint.