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Excerpt from The Ramayana Having received the homage of the ascetics, Rima about sun-rise, having greeted them all, entered into the forest. And Rama, followed by Lakshmana, saw the heart of the forest abounding in various kinds of beasts, — ranged by bears and tigers, with its trees and shrubs torn and trampled, its pools turbid, and its birds crying. And, having in company with Siti arrived at that forest abounding in terrible beasts, Kakutstha saw a man-eate'r, resembling a mountain-summit, emitting tremendous roars, with hollow eyes, a huge face, frightful, having a deformed belly! Disgusting, dreadful, Cyclopean, mis-shapen,of a horrible sight, clad in a tiger-skin, besmeared with fat, covered with blood, capable of frighten ing all creatures, with his mouth widely extended, like unto the Destroyer himself, and uttering loud shouts, — who stood piercing with his iron dart three lions, four tigers, two leopards, four Prishatas. And the huge tusked head of an elephant dripping fat. Having seen Rama and Lakshmana as well as Sita the daughter of Mithiléi, he growing angry.