Verse 9
The deer, and what it cost· Verses 9–12
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9He cut the shape off the raksasa's sister, whose mind was unclean, and killed her kinsmen, Khara and Trisiras and Dusana at their head, fourteen thousand of them. With a bow in hand that none could get past, he lived hard and kept moving. 10The ten-necked one, his heart's desire lit up by hearing talk of Sita, sent out a creature, king; and seeing it in that wonderful deer's body, drawn away from his hermitage, he killed Marica at once with an arrow, as the fierce one killed Ka. 11The lowest of raksasas, like a wolf, in the forest and out of sight, carried off the daughter of the Videha king. Parted from his beloved, Rama went about the woods with his brother like a wretched man, and so showed what comes to those who keep company with a woman.
12He burned the one who had been killed in his cause, his work done, and he killed Kabandha. He made friendship with the monkeys and learned from them where his dear one was; and when Valin had been killed he came with the armies of the monkey lords to the shore, that man whose feet Aja and Bhava worship.