00:00You sever his head with an arrow, and another instantly grows back.
00:03Ten crowned heads, a hundred severed necks, and he still stands laughing.
00:07Ravana, the ten-headed king, had stolen the wife of Rama, an exiled prince.
00:11His divine boon repelled gods and beasts, but ignored mortal men.
00:15Notice his fatal blind spot.
00:17He fought a human too small to fear.
00:19For days their war chariots clashed, bows bending like thunderclaps in dust.
00:23Rama sliced crown after crown away, yet the demon only mocked him.
00:27Then the sage Agastya whispered to the prince, strike the chest.
00:30Think about facing an enemy, whose pride feeds on every wound.
00:34Rama raised the Dramastra, a flaming weapon forged by the creator.
00:37The string patched his ear.
00:39Return what you stole, Rama warned.
00:42Never to a mortal, roared the demon, driving his chariot forward.
00:46The shaft pierced his chest, drying the nectar that kept him alive.
00:50Ten crown heads crashed into the dust.
00:51The long war ended.
00:53He severed ten heads in vain.
00:55What you spare at the root survives?
00:57On Vijaya the Shami, the day of victory, his dowering effigies burn.
01:01Follow.
01:02The epics hold stranger tales than this.
