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The Rāmāyana, Volume 2. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam

Note 216 — SUNDARA KĀNDAM.

Manmatha Nath Dutt translation

Parvatasthāvivānalam—like two fires on a mountain. It evidently means two active craters in a mountain. At least this rendering, without missing in sense, imparts a material sublimity to the passage rarely paralleled in literature. The commentator, however, takes the word to mean forest-conflagration.—T.

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