A great battle ensued. Blood flowed in streams. Dust rose and cut off the sun
plunging the earth in portentous gloom. The slaughter on both sides was enormous. Kumuda,
Nala, Mainda and Dwivida attacked Akampana who defended himself with courage.
The battle went against the Vaanara
warriors and they were about to take flight when Hanumaan arrived bringing courage and
hope. Akampana sent forth a shower of arrows at him but Hanumaan took no notice and
lifting a huge boulder and swinging it above his head hurled it at Akampana. The
Raakshasa's darts intercepted the stone and reduced it to powder.
Then Hanumaan grew in size and shone with
blinding brightness like the sun and uprooting a big tree attacked the Raakshasa with it
and slew him. The Raakshasa army was smashed like a forest in an earthquake and the
survivors fled in panic from the fatal field that was strewn thick with the dead, and
spread the dismal news in Lanka. The Vaanaras surrounded Hanumaan and uproariously
expressed their admiration. |
