Sundara Kanda, Sarga 44

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Commanded by Rāvaṇa, the lord of ogres, Jambumālī, the eminent, mighty and ferocious son of Prahasta, who had large teeth, carried a bow and was difficult to conquer in battle, sallied forth clad in crimson and adorned with a garland of red flowers, a chaplet and brilliant earrings, and stretching with impetuosity his large bow, which resembled a rainbow, was furnished with shining arrows and which when twanged produced a sound like that of thunder and that accompanying a stroke of lightning, his eyes rolling through anger. (1—3)

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All the four quarters as well as the intermediate points as also the sky got filled all of a sudden with the thunderous twang of that bow. (4)

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Observing him arrived in a chariot drawn by donkeys, the celebrated Hanumān, who was full of vigour, rejoiced and roared too. (5)

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Jambumālī, who was endowed with extraordinary energy, pierced with sharpened arrows that great monkey, Hanumān, standing on the top of the archway. (6)

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He for his part hit Hanumān, the leader of monkeys, in the mouth with an arrow with a crescent-shaped head, on the head with a single barbed shaft and in the arms with ten steel arrows. (7)

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Pierced with an arrow, his well-known coppery countenance looked charming like a blown red lotus lit by a sunbeam in autumn. (8)

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Stained with blood, his ruddy face looked splendid like a large red lotus in the sky, sprinkled with drops of honey of a red Aśoka flower. (9)

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Wounded by the shafts of the ogre, the great monkey waxed wroth. Presently he sighted by his side a big rock of immense proportions. (10)

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Tearing it up with impetuosity, the mighty monkey hurled it with vehemence. Full of rage the ogre broke it asunder with ten arrows. (11)

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Uprooting a huge sal tree on seeing the aforesaid feat brought to naught, the powerful Hanumān, who was endowed with terrific prowess, began to whirl it. (12)

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Perceiving the monkey, who was endowed with extraordinary might, spinning the sal tree, the highly powerful Jambumālī let loose numerous shafts. (13)

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He rent the sal asunder with four arrows and pierced the monkey in his arms with five others, in the chest with a further dart and between the breasts with ten more. (14)

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Seizing the same iron club (which he had made use of in the very first instance), Hanumān, whose body was covered with darts and who was now overcome with violent anger, spun it with impetuosity. (15)

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Whirling the club with extreme velocity, full of great impetuosity as he was, Hanumān, who was superior in strength directed it against the broad chest of Jambumālī. (16)

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Neither could his head be discerned any more nor his arms nor his knees nor his bow nor his chariot nor the donkeys yoked to it nor the arrows placed in his quiver. (17)

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Struck with violence by that club, Jambumālī, who was an eminent chariot-warrior, dropped dead on the ground like a tree with its boughs and trunk etc., smashed. (18)

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Rāvaṇa waxed wroth on hearing of Jambumālī as well as of the Kiṅkaras, who were endowed with extraordinary might, having been easily killed, his eyes bloodshot through anger. (19)

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On Jambumālī (son of Prahasta), who was endowed with extraordinary might, having been killed, the notorious Rāvaṇa (the lord of ogres), whose coppery eyes began to roll rapidly through anger, promptly commanded the sons of his chief minister, who were endowed with surpassing virility and prowess, to march against Hanumān. (20)