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