Lanka Kaanda
174 - The battle recommences; encounter between Laksmana and Meghanada; a javelin thrown by the latter strikes Laksmana in the breast
Chaupais
Description
With bloodshot eyes, a broad chest and long arms, his white form shone like the snow-clad Himalaya with a slight admixture of red. At the other end the ten-headed monster sent out champions, who rushed forth equipped with missiles and other weapons of every description. With mountains, claws and trees for weapons, the monkeys hastened to meet the demons, shouting "Victory to Rama." They all closed in the fray, match with match, both the sides equally agog to win. The monkeys, who had now the upper hand, battered the demons with their fists and feet and bit them with their teeth. They struck them down and browbeat them. "Kill, kill, seize, seize, seize, slay, break his head, seize his arm and tear it up!"-such were the cries that filled the air through all the nine divisions of the globe. Headless bodies sprinted furiously hither and thither. Hosts of celestials witnessed the spectacle from heaven, now with joy and now in dismay.