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रावणगमन (rAvaNagamana)

 
Mahabharata
English
Rāvaṇagamana (“the expedition of Rāvaṇa”). § 528: Fearing intrusion by the people of Ayodhyā, Rāma Dāśarathi went away to the wood and visited the hermitage of Śarabhaṅga
then he entered the forest of Daṇḍaka (Daṇḍakāraṇyaṃ) on the river Godāvarī, where he, on account of Śūrpaṇakhā, had hostilities with Khara, and then dwelling in Janasthāna slew 14, 000 Rākshasas together with Khara and Dūshaṇa. Śūrpaṇakhā with mutilated nose and lips repaired to Rāvaṇa on Laṅkā. Rāvaṇa crossed the Trikūṭa and Kāla mountains and arrived at Gokarṇa (the favourite resort of Śiva) where he met Mārīca (b) (III, 277).