In Chapter LXXX, we are told that : in consequence of the enormously accumulated, various evil deeds of the dwellers in Lanka, the " devatas " who were everywhere entrusted with the protection of Lanka, failed to carry out this protection, [ so ] there landed a man who held to a false creed, whose heart rejoiced in bad statesmanship, who was a forest fire for the burning down of bushes in the forest of the good . . . who was a sun whose action closed the rows of night lotus flowers [ that represent ] good doctrine . . . and [ was ] a moon for destroying the grace of the . . . day lotuses that . . . [ represent ] peace . . . ( a man ) by [ the ] name [ of ] Magha, an unjust king sprung from the Kalinga line . . . '.
