Ravana met Shiva's demigod-bull attendant Nandi (Nandisha, Nandikeshvara) at the place and asked the reason behind his chariot's inability to pass over the place. However, the chariot could not fly over it.

After the victory, Ravana was returning to Lanka in the Pushpaka Vimana (the flying chariot stolen from Kubera), when he spotted a beautiful place.

The Uttara Kanda of the Hindu epic Ramayana records that the ten-headed, twenty-armed mighty King Ravana defeated and looted Alaka – the city of his step-brother and god of wealth Kubera, situated near Mount Kailash. In the final quatrain of the poem, after tiring of rampaging across the earth, Ravana asks, 'When will I be happy?' Because of the intensity of his prayers and ascetic meditation, of which this hymn was an example, Ravana received great power from Shiva, as well as a celestial sword called Chandrahasa. Alliteration and onomatopoeia create rolling waves of resounding beauty in this example of Hindu devotional poetry. īoth the ninth and tenth quatrains of this hymn conclude with lists of Shiva's epithets as destroyer, even the destroyer of death itself. The stotra has 16 syllables per line of the quatrain, with laghu (short syllable) and guru (long syllable) characters alternating the poetic meter is iambic octameter by definition. This Sanskrit hymn is also referred to as Shiva Tandava Stotram in English. Shiva refers to the name of the destroyer deity, Tandava or Tandavam refers to a frantic dance, and Stotra or Stotram refers to a panegyric, a hymn of praise. Its authorship is traditionally attributed to the mythical demon ( rakshasa) Ravana, the ruler of Lanka, considered a devotee of Shiva. The Shiva Tandava Stotra(m) ( Sanskrit: शिवताण्डवस्तोत्र, romanized: śiva-tāṇḍava-stotra) is a Sanskrit religious hymn ( stotra) dedicated to the Hindu deity, Shiva, one of the principal gods in Hinduism and the supreme god in Shaivism.

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