Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 70

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Seeing Narāntaka killed, Devāntaka and Triśirā, a scion of Pulasti, as well as Mahodara, who were veritable bulls among the ogres (scions of Nirṛti), cried. (1)

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Mounted on the foremost of elephants, which closely resembled a cloud, Mahodara, who was full of impetuosity, darted towards Aṅgada (son of Vālī), who was endowed with extraordinary prowess. (2)

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Seizing a formidable club tipped with iron, the mighty Devāntaka, who felt distressed on account of the fall of his brother, Narāntaka, forthwith rushed straight towards Aṅgada. (3)

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Taking his seat in a chariot effulgent as the sun and drawn by excellent horses, the valiant Triśirā too marched against Aṅgada (son of Vālī). (4)

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Attacked by the three ogre-chiefs, who were capable of crushing the pride of gods, the aforesaid Aṅgada pulled up a tree with mighty boughs. (5)

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The gallant Aṅgada precipitately hurled that huge tree with immense branches at Devāntaka even as Indra would hurl his flaming thunderbolt. (6)

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Triśirā tore the tree into pieces with his arrows resembling venomous serpents. Seeing the tree severed, the said Aṅgada forthwith sprang up. (7)

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That elephant among the monkeys thereupon showered trees and rocks. Getting enraged, Triśirā tore them into pieces with his whetted shafts. (8)

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The notorious Mahodara shattered those trees with the head of his club, while Triśirā attacked the heroic Aṅgada with his arrows. (9)

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Hotly pursuing, on the back of his elephant, the son of Vālī, Mahodara struck him in the breast with clubs, which flashed as lightning, enraged as he was. (10)

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Approaching Aṅgada and striking him with his club, infuriated as he was, the agile Devāntaka quickly retreated. (11)

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Simultaneously attacked by the three jewels among ogres, the mighty son of Vālī, who was endowed with extraordinary energy, did not feel the least alarmed. (12)

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Exhibiting extraordinary impetuosity and duly assaulting the huge elephant of Mahodara, the agile Aṅgada, who was exceedingly difficult to conquer, struck it with his palm. (13)

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As a result of that blow dealt by Aṅgada on the field of battle, the eyes of that lordly elephant fell down and the said elephant perished. (14)

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Pulling out a tusk of the elephant and darting agairst Devāntaka, the son of Vālī, Aṅgada, who was endowed with extraordinary might, dealt him a blow with it on the battlefield. (15)

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Thrown into disorder like a tree shaken by the wind, the heroic ogre for his part shed profuse blood which had a colour resembling that of lacquer. (16)

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Recovering his breath with difficulty and brandishing his club with impetuosity, the mighty Devāntaka, who was endowed with extraordinary energy, then struck Aṅgada with it. (17)

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Though struck with the club and fallen on his knees to the ground, Aṅgada (son of the king of monkeys), they say, forthwith sprang up once more. (18)

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While he was doing so, Triśirā struck Aṅgada (son of the Lord of the monkeys) with three formidable straight-going arrows on the brow; so the legend goes. (19)

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Finding him surrounded by three of the foremost of ogres, Hanumān as well as Nīla then set out at once to help him. (20)

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Thereupon Nīla forthwith hurled a mountain-peak at Triśira. The sagacious son of Rāvaṇa, however, shattered it with his whetted shafts. (21)

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Smashed by hundreds of arrows discharged by Triśirā, the mountain-peak, which had all its rocky bases split up, fell down with sparks and flames that rose from it. (22)

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Witnessing with joy the exploit of Triśirā in the form of smashing the mountain-peak, the mighty Devāntaka assaulted Hanumān (son of the wind-god) with a club on the battle-field. (23)

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Springing up, Hanumān, an elephant among the monkeys, forthwith struck on the head Devāntaka even as he was rushing forward, with his fist, which was hard as adamant. (24)

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The valiant and mighty son of the wind-god, Hanumān, then dealt a blow on Devāntaka head once more and by means of his roar that great monkey positively caused the ogres to tremble. (25)

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His skull shattered by the blow of Hanumān’s fist, nay, his teeth, eyes and lolling tongue forced out, Devāntaka, son of Rāvaṇa (the ruler of ogres) precipitately fell dead on the ground. (26)

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When that enemy of gods, the foremost of ogre-warriors, who was endowed with extraordinary might, was killed in the encounter with the monkeys, the furious Triśirā discharged on the breast of Nīla a fearful shower of whetted arrows. (27)

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Quickly mounting once more an elephant resembling a mountain, even as the sun would ascend the Mandara mountain, the infuriated Mahodara for his part thereupon let fall a hail of arrows on Nīla even as a rainy cloud distinguished by a circle of lightning and a rainbow would pour a shower on a mountain. (28-29)

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While being covered on all sides with volleys of arrows, Nīla, the commander-in-Chief of the simian army, whose limbs were pierced by said arrows forthwith found his body inert, rendered powerless as he was by the ogre, who was endowed with extraordinary might. (30)

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Tearing up a crag covered with a thicket, and then springing up, Nīla for his part, who had now regained his consciousness, and who was endowed with terrific impetuosity, struck Mahodara with it on the head, (31)

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Smashed by the impact of the crag alongwith the aforesaid huge elephant, and rendered unconscious, the said Mahodara fell dead on the earth’s surface like a mountain struck by lightning. (32)

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Enraged to see his uncle, Mahodara, killed, Triśirā seized his bow and pierced Hanumān with his whetted shafts. (33)

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Full of fury the aforesaid son of the wind-god flung a mountain-peak at the ogre. The mighty Triśirā, however, split it with his sharp arrows into several pieces. (34)

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Finding the aforesaid mountain-peak ineffectual, the monkey, Hanumān, then hurled a shower of trees on the son of Rāvaṇa, Triśirā, in that combat. (35)

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The powerful Triśirā, however, tore with his whetted shafts that shower of trees falling through the airspace, and roared too. (36)

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Springing up in fury, Hanumān for his part then tore the horse of Triśirā with his nails even as a lion (lit., the king of beasts) would claw a lordly elephant. (37)

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Seizing hold of his javelin, even as Death would take in his service Kālarātri (a sister of Kāla, the deity presiding over the night of destruction at the end of the world cycle), Triśirā, sprung from the lions of Rāvaṇa, hurled it at the son of the wind-god. (38)

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Catching that javelin flung by Triśirā, which came unobstructed like a meteor shot from the heavens, Hanumān (a tiger among the monkeys) snapped it and roared, too. (39)

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Seeing that javelin of formidable aspect destroyed by Hanumān, the simian hosts felt overjoyed and thundered like rainy clouds. (40)

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Lifting up his sword, Triśirā, the foremost of ogres, thereupon immediately hit with vehemence the breast of the monkey-chief, Hanumān. (41)

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Wounded by the thrust of his sword, the valiant Hanumān, sprung from the loins of the wind-god, struck the ogre,Triśirā, with his palm on the breast. (42)

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Slapped by him, though endowed with extraordinary energy, Triśirā dropped unconscious to the ground, the weapon in his hand having slipped. (43)

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Snatching away that sword of the ogre even as he was falling down, the mighty monkey, Hanumān, who looked like a mountain, let out a roar, striking terror in all the ogres. (44)

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Unable to bear that roar, the prowler of the night sprang on his feet; and, jumping up, he struck Hanumān with his fist. (45)

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The great monkey flew into a rage at the aforesaid blow to Triśirā’s fist and, full of fury, seized hold of Triśirā (the foremost of ogres) by his head covered with a diadem. (46)

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Getting enraged, that son of the wind-god completely severed with his sharp sword all the three heads of Triśirā, covered with diadems and adorned with ear-rings, in the same way as Indra, the ruler of gods, lopped off in in the past the three heads of Viśwarūpa, son of Twaṣṭā. (47)

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The aforesaid heads of Triśirā (an enemy of Indra), which were distinguished by enormous sense-organs (appertures of the eyes, ears and nose) were huge as rocks and had eyes glowing like a flaming fire—fell to the ground like stars fallen down from the sky (lit., the orbit of the sun). (48)

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When that enemy of gods, Triśirā, was killed by Hanumān, who was endowed with the prowess of Indra (the ruler of gods), the monkey, Hanumān, roared in triumph, the earth shook and the ogres took to their heels on all sides. (49)

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Finding Triśirā killed and Mahodara too and likewise perceiving Devāntaka and Narāntaka, who were difficult to overpower, made short work of, the highly indignant Matta (more popularly known by the name of Mahāpārśwa) a veritable bull among the ogres, flew into a rage and forthwith seized hold of a huge flaming and glittering mace entirely made of iron, though plated with gold, which was covered with foam of flesh and blood when used against the enemy and had been saturated with the enemy’s blood, whose head was inflamed with lustre, which was decked with crimson flowers and brought terror to Airāvata, Mahāpadma and Sārvabhauma (three of the four elephants supporting the four quarters). (50—53)

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Seizing the mace, filled with fury, and flaring up like the fire of universal destruction at the end of the world cycle, Matta, a veritable bull among the ogres, scattered the monkeys. (54)

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Springing up and approaching Mattānīka (Mahāpārśwa), a younger brother of Rāvaṇa, the mighty monkey Ṛṣabha stood facing him. (55)

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Enraged to behold that monkey, who looked like a mountain, standing in front of him, the ogre struck him on the chest with his mace, which was hard as adamant. (56)

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Struck by him with that mace and staggered, that bull among the monkeys, who had his chest cleft, shed copious blood. (57)

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Fully regaining consciousness after a long time, Rṣabha, the monkey-chief, cast a glance at Mahāpārśwa, enraged as he was, his lips quivering with rage. (58)

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Approaching that ogre with impetuosity and clenching his fist, that agile leader of monkey heroes, whose exterior presented the appearance of a mountain, precipitately struck him on the chest (lit. the space between the two arms). (59)

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Like a tree whose roots have been severed, the ogre suddenly fell to the ground, bathed all over in blood. Nay, quickly seizing hold of that formidable mace of the ogre, which resembled the rod of Yama (the god of retribution), the monkey, Ṛṣabha, forthwith roared. (60)

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For a while Mahāpārśwa remained all but dead. Springing on his feet all of a sudden, his lifµe-breath having returned, the enemy of gods, whose colour resembled that of an evening cloud, struck the aforesaid son of the lord of waters, Ṛṣabha. (61)

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The monkey lay unconscious on the earth’s surface awhile. Springing up, when he was conscious again, and brandishing that very mace of the ogre, which looked like a rock of the foremost of mountains, Rṣabha struck him with it on the battle-field. (62)

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Reaching the body of that ferocious enemy of gods, sacrificial performances and Brāhmaṇas, that terrible mace clove his breast; and the ogre shed profuse blood even as the Himālaya mountain (the lord of mountains) lets out water charged with minerals (like ochre). (63)

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The ogre now darted towards the mace held in the hand of that gigantic monkey, Rṣabha. Clutching that terrible mace and brandishing it again and again, the high-souled Rṣabha struck Mahāpārśwa with it in the forefront of the battle. Smashed with his own mace, his teeth and eyes fallen down, Matta (Mahāpārśwa) forthwith dropped down like a mountain struck with lightning. When that ogre, whose eyes had been crushed, dropped unconcious and lifeless on the ground, the army of ogres fled. (64—66)

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When the aforesaid younger brother of Rāvaṇa was killed, the aforesaid army of ogres (the scions of Nirṛti), which resembled an ocean, fled for life, casting away weapons, and presenting the appearance of an ocean which has burst its shores. (67)