Sarasa - Susheela Raman

Be my salvation

You who are without equal in the arts of rule:

Persuasion, Giving, Dividing your enemies

And destroying them

How could the demon Ravana, Shiva’s devotee, so underestimate you?

When he kidnapped your beloved

You tenderly entreated him

Through the monkey god

And even offered him the kingdom of Ayodhya

In return for her

Then you won over his brother

And made him king instead

But when Ravana still insisted

You destroyed him and all his kind