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विश्वावसुमोक्षण (vizvAvasumokSaNa)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Viśvāvasumokshaṇa (“the liberation of Viśvāyasu”)]. § 530 (cf. Rāmopākhyānap.). Jaṭāyu (brother of Sampāti and son of Aruṇa and friend of Daśaratha) attacked Rāvaṇa, who cut off his wings. Rāvaṇa entered Laṅkā (built by Viśvakṛt) with Sītā. Jaṭāyu indicated to Rāma (Kākutsha) and Lakshmaṇa that Rāvaṇa had gone towards the south, and then he died. Rāma caused his funeral obsequies to be duly performed. Rāma and Lakshmaṇa killed a Rākshasa named Kabandha, from whose body there came out a celestial person, viz. the Gandharva prince Viśvāvasu, who had been cursed by a brahman
he directed them to Sugrīva (brother of the monkey king Vālin), who dwelled at the lake Pampā, near the mountain Ṛshyamūka, with his four counsellors
then he disappeared (III, 279).