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THE KILLING OF RĀVANA
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and Kumbhakarna and the other Rākṣasas ran up from devotion to their masters, like servants of Kṛtānta. Rāma obstructed Kumbhakarna; Lakṣmaṇa Rāvaņi; Nila Sinhajaghana; Durmaşa Ghatodara; Svayambhu Durmati; Nalavira Sambhu; Angada Maya; Skanda Candranakha; and the son of Candrodara Vighna; King Bhāmandala Ketu; Śrīdatta Jambumalin; the son of Pavananjaya obstructed Kumbha, the son of Kumbhakarna; the lord of Kişkindhā Sumāla; Kunda the Rākṣasa Dhumräkṣa; the son of Välin, Candraraśmi, the Räkṣasa soldier, Sāraṇa. Other Kapis obstructed other Rakṣasas in this way and fought with them like sea-monsters with seamonsters in the ocean.
While the battle, more terrible than the terrible, was taking place, Indrajit angrily discharged the missile of darkness at Lakṣmaṇa. Saumitri, causing pain to enemies, at once melted that missile by the missile of heat, like a ball of wax by fire. Saumitri angrily discharged the missile, serpent-noose, at Indrajit and he was bound by it quickly like an elephant in water by a rope. Daśāsya's son, his body bound by the serpent-missile, fell like a thunderbolt, splitting the earth. At Lakṣmaṇa's command Virādha threw him inside his chariot and quickly led him to his tent, like a prison-guard. The elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa bound Kumbhakarna with serpent-nooses and Bhamaṇḍala led him to his camp at Rāma's command. Other enemy soldiers were bound by Rama's soldiers, Meghavahana, et cetera, and were led to their camps.
sorrow,
When Daśamukha saw that, filled with anger and he hurled his spear, the root of the Sri of Victory, at Bibhiṣaṇa. The younger brother of Rāma broke the spear into pieces in the air, as easily as a plantain-stalk, by means of sharp arrows. Daśagrīva, seeking victory, lifted the great spear, named Amoghavijayā, which had been given by Dharanendra. He whirled it in the sky, flaming with the crackling sound, dhagad, dhagiti, making the sound taḍat, taḍiti, like a flash of lightning from the
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