This is an article explaining the fact that Ravan experimented with the power of Rama's name. Let us see as to what is the incident mentioned in Ramayan.
Even after Hanuman came to Lanka and demonstrated a sample of his power first by crossing the ocean and then by burning several housed in Lanka with the torch made on Hanuman's tail by the demons with the cloths covered and dipped in oil Ravan felt that he is invincible. Hanuman could have crossed the ocean by some magic which cannot be repeated by all.
One day one of his spies came and informed Ravan that Sri Ram is trying to build a bridge with the help of the vaanaras (monkeys). He further informed that the boulders and the hillocks put in the ocean by the monkeys are not downed, but are floating on the water. Ravan did not believe it. While the discussion was going on between Ravan and the spy, Ravan's wife Mandodari went to her garden and wrote the name of 'Sri Ram' on a small boulder and put it in the garden pond. The stone did not went down in the water. She came back and told the incident to Ravan when the spy has gone away. Ravan still did not believe the same. However he decided to test the incident by himself. He went with his wife to the pond and saw the stone put by her, lying over the water. He took a stone in his hands and told that he is telling the Ram's name and putting the stone in the water and threw the stone in to the water with some force. To his consternation the stone did not go down in the water but was lying on the water. Ravan meditated on this and told to himself that Sri Ram is a capable person who is equal to fight him (Ravan).
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