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Prasannakirthi took up Nal and Neel and proceeded towards the camp.
Sugriv challenged Yamadand to fight with him and there took place a terrible fight between them. Sometimes, Yamadand's extraordinary militaric skill and abilities reminded him of Indrajit and sometimes it reminded him of Kumbhakarna's abilities. For a moment, Sugriy felt confounded and shaken. He made a decision and according to it, stopping that kind of fight against Yamadand, he began to fight against him using his mace and killed him. In the centre of the battle-field, Lakshman and Ravan were engaged in a terrible fight. Neither was inferior to the other. All the armies kept watching the fight standing mute and motionless like pictures. It seemed that the day's defeat or victory lay in the hands of Lakshman and Ravan. When Ravan found that Lakshman's attacks were severe he decided to use the Bahurupini power and he at once recited the relevant mantra. In consequence, millions of Ravans appeared all over the battle-field. Seeing everywhere rising floods of Ravans assuming terrible and dreadful shapes, Lakshman felt greatly worried. Ravan began to fight with his countless forms. It was impossible for Lakshman to identify the real Ravan among those rising millions. Therefore he short arrows of supernatural efficacy in all directions and destroyed many forms of Ravan. Lakshman began to display his extraordinary courage and heroism. He became absorbed in fighting against the millions of Ravans while each arrow released by him destroyed one Ravan.
Ravan watched with amazement Lakshman's dance of destruction. In fact, he was stupefied by Lakshman's heroism. He had never dreamt that Lakshman would fight thus. When he found that the Bahurupinividya was ineffective against, Lakshman, he ultimately decided to use his Sudarshanchakra (the divine wheel). It was a supremely radiant wheel.
It was the only weapon that could surely destroy the enemy.
Ravan had not used that weapon until that day and in fact there was no occasion to use it earlier. But on that day all his
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