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Valmiki and Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Strong Kumbhakarṇa slumbering deep
In chains of never-ending sleep.
“Kumbhakarṇa, the gigantic brother of the titanic Rávaṇ,—named from the size of his ears which could contain a Kumbha or large water-jar—had such an appetite that he used to consume six months' provisions in a single day. Brahmá, to relieve the alarm of the world, which had begun to entertain serious apprehensions of being eaten up, decreed that the giant should sleep six months at a time and wake for only one day during which he might consume his six months' allowance without trespassing unduly on the reproductive capabilities of the ”Scenes front the Rámáyan, p. 153, 2nd Edit.