बालकाण्ड • Tāṭakā Utpatti & Varṇana
Book 1: Bāla Kāṇḍa - Chapter 25
The ancestry, monstrous power, and demonic curse of the yakshi Tataka
Bāla Kāṇḍa (बालकाण्ड)
Section XXV • Chapter 25
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Tāṭakā Utpatti & Varṇana
The ancestry, monstrous power, and demonic curse of the yakshi Tataka
Original Narrative Summary (Dutt 1891 Prose Translation)
Hearing this excellent speech of that ascetic of immeasurable energy, that foremost of men answered him in these happy words,--"O best of ascetics, I have heard that the Yaksha race is endowed with but small prowess. How can then that one of the weaker sex possess the strength...