Sarg 30 - Meghnaad Becomes Immortal

After Meghnaad arrived in Lankaa with Indra, Brahmaa Jee went to Lankaa along with all Devtaa and said to Raavan - "Hey Raavan, Your son Meghnaad is very mighty. We are very pleased from his bravery in the war. From today people will call him by the name of Indrajeet." Then he said to Indrajeet - "Putra Indrajeet, now you free Indra."

Meghnaad said - "Hey Brahmaa, If you give me immortality then I can free Indra." Brahmaa Jee said - "Putra, I can make you immortal from any one being not from all beings." At this Meghnad said - "Give me this Var in return of freeing Indra, that when I offer Aahuti in Agni in wartime, then I don't get defeated from the enemy. On offering Aahuti a chariot with horses appears and till I am on that chariot I don't get killed. If I start fighting before completing the Agni and Jap then I should be destroyed." Brahmaa Jee said - "So be it." and Meghnaad freed Indra.

Seeing Indra worried and scared Brahmaa Jee said - "Hey Indra, Listen to the Paap because of which you reached to this condition. In the beginning of the Creation when we created only one Varn, one language and one form of people, then to bring specialties in them we extracted the essence from their all parts and created a woman named Ahilyaa. Then I thought, "to whom I should marry her, so I kept her with Rishi Gautam as a deposit. Later seeing his truthfulness and Tapasyaa, I married her to Gautam Rishi. 

When Gautam Rishi started living with her as her husband, you got furious at this and had her by cheating on Gautam Rishi. Gautam Rishi gave you Shaap, "Hey Indra, You have had my wife under the control of Kaam, therefore you will be tied in war by enemy. And this out of wedlock relationship practice will get common in Manushya Lok (Prithvi) also, and you will share their half of their Paap. Besides you will not be stable on your position." So Hey Indra, After giving this Shaap to you, Gautam Rishi gave Shaap to Ahilyaa - "O evil, You have done this in the madness of your beauty and youth, you get destroyed. Had you not been beautiful alone then why should Indra have you?" 

Then  Ahilyaa said politely - "Bhagvan, Indra cheated me taking your form, please uplift me from this situation." Gautam Muni said - "Vishnu will incarnate in Ikshwaaku Vansh with the name of Raam. He will come to forest with Muni Vishwaamitra  then you will be uplifted. Then you will come to me." And Gautam Rishi left the Aashram.

Ahilyaa started doing Tap in the same Aashram. So Hey Indra, now you must have known the reason of being tied like this. Now you go and do Vaishnav (related to Vishnu) Yagya and go to Swarg being pious. Don't worry about your son. He is with his Naanaa Pulomaa hiding in the sea."

So Indra started ruling Swarg again after doing Vaishnav Yagya. So Hey Raaghav, the bravery Meghnaad showed by winning Indra, I told the account of that to you. Hearing this Vaanar got very surprised. Even Raam Himself was surprised to know all this.

Sarg 31 - Raavan Goes to Sahastraarjun

Then Raam asked - "Were Raajaa of those times so weak that Raavan exiled them after winning them; or there were not any Raajaa in this Lok?" Agastya Muni said smiling - "Hey Raaghav, I have already said enough about Raavan's might. Many mighty Raajaa have been in this world. Now I tell you about them.

Defeating many kings, and wandering around on Prithvi, Raavan arrived in Mahishmatee Nagaree. When he arrived there, very mighty king of that Nagaree Arjun had gone to take bath in river with his women. On asking, Arjun's ministers said - "At this time our Swaamee has gone to take bath somewhere." 

So Raavan came to the bank of Narmadaa River. Wandering around and looking at the beauty of Vindhyaachal Parvat, he got very happy to see Narmadaa River's clear and clean water. So he asked the people to take bath in Narmadaa River as they were tired and wounded because of several fights. He himself sat on the bank and started worshipping Shiv Jee and his people started taking bath in the river. Then he did Jaap and worshipped Shiv's golden idol on the river's bank. He sang and danced also in front of the idol.