Verse 21

¹⁶The lord of the Raghus bound a bridge across the sea with peaks of every kind of mountain and with whole trees shaken loose in the hands of the monkey chiefs; and with his troops, Sugriva and Nila and Hanuman at their head, and with Vibhisana to show him the way, he entered Lanka, which had been burnt once already. ¹⁷Lanka, her pleasure grounds and storerooms and fine gates and gate-towers and halls and lofts and dovecotes all blocked by the army of the monkey chiefs, her council seats and flagstaffs and golden pinnacles and crossings broken to pieces, was churned about like a river-pool churned by herds of elephants.

¹⁸The lord of the raksasas, seeing this, sent out Nikumbha, Kumbha, Dhumraksa, Durmukha, Surantaka, Narantaka and the rest, and his son, and Prahasta, Atikaya, Vikampana and the rest, all his followers, and then Kumbhakarna. ¹⁹He went against that army of night-walkers, hard to break through for its swords and spears and bows, its javelins and pikes and lances and arrows and iron clubs and blades, with Sugriva, Laksmana, the son of the wind, Gandhamada, Nila, Angada, Rksa, Panasa and the rest beside him. ²⁰All the captains of the Raghu lord's force fell on them man to man, on their elephants and foot and chariots and horse; and Angada and the others struck down Ravana's lords, whose auspicious fortune had died the moment Sita was touched, striking with trees and hills and maces and arrows.

²¹The lord of the raksasas, seeing his own force destroyed, was enraged. He mounted his car and went out against Rama, who shone on the bright chariot of heaven that Matali had brought, and struck at him with sharp razor-edged arrows.