The Ponnivala fighters have just lost all their dogs to
Komban’s trickery. Afraid for their own lives they start to run
from him.
But Komban is in hot pursuit. He knows the forest far better
than these frightened men, all sons of farmers. He plans to trap
them.
Soon Komban has all the fighters cornered in a cul-de-sac.
They have nowhere to go!
Komban tosses many poor men high in the air with his tusks.
He keeps on terrorizing them until there is nothing left but
a big mess of injured men lying on the ground.
However, King Komban does not win his battle with the farmers so easily! The heroes’ little sister has a tiny female dog, her pet. That little dog was born to defeat Komban. He doesn't know this and makes the mistake of trying to bully her!
The little dog, named Ponnachi, chews off Komban’s ears.
Then she grabs a hold of his tail as he tries to run, biting him
using the poison in her teeth!
Ponnachi has preplanned this and has asked the two heroes to
stand on a high cliff, ready with their great boar spear. She jumps
off Komban’s tail and calls to them at the last moment!
The great beast rears and cries out with his final breath to
his forest princess: “Oh Viratangal The Brave! Help me!”
The princess Viratangal hears Komban’s cry. She quickly
gathers her brothers to plan a revenge for this deadly attack on her
dear pet. Lord Vishnu is there to assure these hunters that they
have help.
Meanwhile the elder hero assigns their First Minister the
task of skinning and cutting up Komban’s body. It will become a
great offering to the gods.
But no sooner is the meat cut up and laid out on seven plates
than Lord Vishnu himself comes along, looking like a washerman. He
asks for the head of the great demon for his “pregnant wife.”
Vishnu gets agreement and prepares to take his sacrificial
share - the head of the great beast - away.
Lord Vishnu, still in disguise, drags the head away.
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