Sarasa

Be my salvation
You who are without equal in the arts of rule:
Persuasion, Giving, Dividing your enemies
And destroying them
How could the demon Ravana, Shiva's devotee, so underestimate you?
When he kidnapped your beloved
You tenderly entreated him
Through the monkey god
And even offered him the kingdom of Ayodhya
In return for her
Then you won over his brother
And made him king instead
But when Ravana still insisted
You destroyed him and all his kind