("trunk with no
head") In the Ramayana (the older of the two major Hindu epics), a demon
confronts the epic's protagonist, god-king Rama, and Rama's brother Lakshmana.
Kabandha was a monarch of the gandharvas, or heavenly
musicians, in a previous incarnation, but his head was thrust down into his
body after a fight with the god Indra.
When Kabandha asks for a way to eat, Indra inserts a mouth
into Kabandha's stomach.
When Rama and Lakshmana chop off his arms, Indra promises
him that the curse will be broken.
As Rama and Lakshmana seek a jungle for Rama's abducted wife
Sita, Kabandha approaches them and grips each of them in one of his extended
arms.
When they realize they can't get away, Rama and Lakshmana
each slice off one of his arms, and Kabandha requests the brothels to burn his
corpse with his dying breaths.
The gandharva king emerges from the flames in his former form and instructs the brothers to seek aid from the monkey-king Sugriva while the corpse burns.
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