Where stately mansions rose around,
A palace fairer still he found,
Whose royal height and splendour showed
Where Ravan's self, the king, abode,
A chosen band with bow and sword
Guarded the palace of their lord,
Where Ráksha's dames of noble race
And many a princess fair of face
Whom Rávan's arm had torn away
From vanquished kings in slumber lay.
400:1b Vis'vakarmá is the architect of the
Gods, the Hephaestos or Mulciber of the
Indian heaven. 400:2b Rávan in the resistless power which
his long austerities had endowed him with,
had conquered his brother Kuvera the
God of Gold and taken from him his
greatest treasure this enchanted car. 400:3b Like Milton's heavenly car
'Itself instinct with spirit.'