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## Forty-fourth Chapter
235. "Are there any other wicked *dvijas* who are your enemies? Give me the bow, my dear, so that I can destroy them." ||43||
Seeing the large army approaching, filled with various weapons and resembling a cloud driven by the wind, ||44||
Rama said, "Are these gods, the possessors of great strength, going to Nandishvara island to pay homage to the Jinas with devotion?" ||44-45||
"Or, having cut down a bamboo grove and killed a man, has Lakshmana taken this *asir* gem, and are these deceitful enemies approaching?" ||46||
"Or, it seems that this wicked, deceitful woman has stirred up her own people to cause us harm." ||47||
"It is not right to ignore this army that has come so close." Saying this, Rama fixed his gaze on his armor and bow. ||48||
Lakshmana, with folded hands, said, "O Lord, it is not fitting for you to be angry while I am here." ||49||
"You protect the princess, and I will go towards the enemy. If there is any danger to me, you will know it by my lion's roar." ||50||
Saying this, Lakshmana, covered in armor and armed with great weapons, stood ready to fight, facing the enemy. ||51||
Seeing Lakshmana, the valiant, the best of men, with his excellent form, the *vidyadharas* in the sky surrounded him like clouds surrounding a mountain. ||52||
Lakshmana skillfully repelled the *shakti*, *mudgara*, *chakra*, spears, and arrows launched by the *vidyadharas* with his own weapons. ||53||
Then, having stopped all the weapons launched by the *vidyadharas*, he prepared to release his thunderbolt-like arrows at them. ||54||
With a single arrow, Lakshmana, with his controlled mind and knowledge of the battlefield, stopped the great army of *vidyadharas* just as a sage stops evil desires with his special knowledge. ||55||
The heads of the enemies, adorned with jeweled necklaces and earrings, fell from the sky to the earth like lotuses from a celestial lake. ||56||
Mountain-like *dviradas* fell along with their horses, and the sound of their clashing armor was terrifying. ||57||