, this means “premature awakening,” seems in the 14th-century Bengali poet Krittivas’s rendering in the epic. In this particular Variation, Rama, unable to beat Ravana and his monstrous brother Kumbhakarna, prays to Durga for divine intervention. He gathers 108 (a numerologically substantial range in South Asian religions) lotus flowers as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HpMpEww4Q