Who is this coming here

Ragam: 
Madhyamavathi
Rhythm: 
Champa 20 mathras
Story Play (Attakkatha): 
Kalyanasaugandhikam
Characters: 
Hanuman
Sloka 1:
Requested thus by wife, Bheema, the shining one, holding a club, approached mount Gandhamadana.  By his stamping of foot, the inhabitant creatures were thrown away,  It was as if the mountain itself was screaming.

Sloka 2:

The beautiful  Panchali’s swift looks – that fell on him – provided as the food for way.  Taking that, that adventurous Bheema, walked, terrifying all the creatures and arrived at the Gardens.

Sloka 3:

Observing, Bheema who was approaching without any hesitation, holding a huge club, and the one with powerful arms, Hanuman, who was meditating, keeping his mind on Lord Rama, thought thus:
 
 
Who is this coming? Is there no one to oppose him?
With increasing arrogance, he is in the forest.
 
It looks as if valor is personified.
 
Elephants,abandoning pride, are 
running away with fear.
 
Lions are sad and frightened
and staying back in deep caves.
 
In my mind, I am feeling affection towards him.
He is the son of Wind and my younger brother.
 
Let me find out his strength and also inform
him the truth about me.
 
Hey Lord Rama, Rama, Hail, the one who charms the world.
The killer of Ravana, Rama, Seetha’s Lord!

 

References:
 
Hanuman, after the rituals behind the scene, Seats himself in the centre as if in deep meditation.
 
Meditating Hanuman gets disturbed, fixes his mind in Lord Rama and continues meditation. Disturbed again, Hanuman thinks.
 
"When I am fixing my mind in Lord Rama, the Lord of the three world’s, why is my mind getting disturbed?
 
Is the end of the world approaching?
 
No. All the trees and plants are filled with buds and flowers.
Not only that, sounds of animals and birds can be heard. So it is not the end of the world.
 
 
What is this sound that is deafening?
 
There I can see a golden complexioned human being with a club in his hand, destroying trees and making his way through…
 
Frightened wild animals are running away and hiding.
 
The sky is full of frightened birds flying away.
 
Human beings cannot pass through this place. In such a place, who is this man, who is coming ferociously?
 
Let me find out."
 
After the the actor starts enacting the verses. 

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After the verses, Hanuman continues this short inactment .

 
"Why is he coming this way? oh it is for getting Sougandhika for Panchali !
 
Ok, let me take the form of an old monkey and blocks his way."
 
After the enactment, Hanuman slowly transforms himself into an aged monkey and crowls to the left to lie down in anticipation of Bheema.
 

 

Stage Features: 

Hanuman, after the rituals behind the scene, Seats himself in the centre as if in deep meditation. Disturbed by a sound, and thinking “May it be”, Disturbed again, considers that the depthness of his meditation is not as needed.  Hence I shall lock all the vital senses and goes back to meditation. Again disturbed by the noise, now very large and near. Sound Description. At the end, finds a man approaching with a club in hand destroying all that is on his way, decides to think and know who the incomer micht be, Enacts padam set to Madhyamavati Ragam and Champa cycle of 20 beats per segment.
 

Supplementary Details: 

“In my mind a bit of---“  Indicative prompting.  There may be octa-faceted culmination choreography – a dance. After brief enactment, circular culmination. After the enactment, slowly transforms himself into an aged monkey and lies crowls to the left to lie down in anticipation of Bheema.

 
 

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