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In this text, a wise man invents a new form of verse after watching two birds being shot while mating, which he teaches to the protagonist’s two sons. A character in this text who is cursed to sleep for six months at a time is woken up when a thousand elephants walk over him. In this text, a demon disguised as a golden deer is used to distract a princess of Ayodhya (10[1])(“eye-OHD-yuh”). This text’s antagonist orders Hanuman’s tail to be lit on fire, (-5[1])which he uses to burn down his citadel (10[1])in Lanka. For 10 points, Sita is kidnapped by the rakshasa (“RAHK-shuh-suh”) Ravana (“RAH-vuh-nuh”) in what Sanskrit epic by Valmiki, written before the Mahabharata? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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