salute thee who art Hari,(1153) Visvakarman,(1154) the destroyer
of darkness, and who art splendid and Lokasakshin.(1155) Yonder sun
destroys the whole of the material world and also creates it. Yonder sun
dries (all earthly things), destroys them and causes rain with his rays.
He wakes when our senses are asleep; and resides within all beings. Yonder
sun is Agnihotra(1156) and also the fruit obtained by the performer of
Agnihotra. He is identified with the gods, sacrifices, and the fruit of
the sacrifices. He is the Lord of all the duties known to the world, if
any man, O Raghava, in calamities, miseries, forests and dangers, prays to
yonder sun, he is never overwhelmed by distress.

Worship, with close attention Him the God of gods and the Lord of the
world; and recite these verses thrice, whereby thou wilt be victorious in
the battle. O brave one, thou wilt kill Ravana this very instant."

Thereupon Agastya having said this went away as he came. The glorious Rama
having heard this became free from sorrow. Raghava whose senses were under
control, being pleased, committed the hymn to memory, recited it facing
the sun, and obtained great delight. The brave Rama having sipped water
thrice and become pure took his bow, and seeing Ravana, was delighted, and
meditated on the sun.

Page 492. Ravan's Funeral.

"In the funeral ceremonies of India the fire was placed on three sides of
the pyre; the _Dakshina_ on the south, the _Garhapatya_ on the west, and
the _Ahavaniya_ on the east. The funeral rites are not described in detail
here, and it is therefore difficult to elucidate and explain them. The
poem assigns the funeral ceremonies of Aryan Brahmans to the Rakshases, a
race different from them in origin and religion, in the same way as Homer
sometimes introduces into Troy the rites of the Grecian cult." GORRESIO.

Mr. Muir translates the description of the funeral from the Calcutta
edition, as follows: "They formed, with Vedic rites, a funeral pile of
faggots of sandal-wood, with _padmaka_ wood, _usira_ grass, and sandal,
and covered with a quilt of deer's hair. They then performed an unrivalled
obsequial ceremony for the Raxasa prince, placing the sacrificial ground
to the S.E. and the fire in the proper situation. They cast the ladle
filled with curds and ghee on the shoulder(1157) of the deceased; he (?)
placed the car on the feet, and the mortar between the thighs. Having
deposited all the wooden vessels, the