Verse 11

¹¹The wicked branch-beast climbed a branch and shook the trees and set up a chattering, showing himself off. ¹²Seeing the ape's cheek, the young women, giddy by nature and fond of a laugh, laughed at him; they were Baladeva's wives. ¹³The ape jeered at them with jerks of his brows and by standing in front of them and the rest, showing them his backside; and Rama saw him do it. ¹⁴Bala, the best of strikers, was angry and threw a stone at him. The ape dodged the stone, and took hold of the liquor jar, ¹⁵and jeered, the trickster, making him angry and laughing at him. The wretch smashed the jar and pulled at the women's clothes, and Bala,

¹⁶the strong one, he treated as nothing, and lifted up with his own drunkenness he did him outrage. Seeing that rudeness of his, and the districts he had harried,