Canto L. Prahasta's Questions.

Then fierce the giant's fury blazed

As on Hanúmán's form he gazed,

And shaken by each wild surmise

He spake aloud with flashing eyes:

“Can this be Nandi[882] standing here,

The mighty one whom all revere?

Who once on high Kailása's hill

Pronounced the curse that haunts me still?

Or is the woodland creature one