Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 98

Meaning

Gazing on Sugrīva when Mahodara had been struck down by the latter, Mahāpārśwa for his part, who was endowed with extraordinary might, and whose eyes had turned crimson through anger, forthwith set up a commotion with his shafts in the formidable ranks of Aṅgada. Nay, that ogre severed the heads of the leading monkeys from their trunks even as the wind would detach a fruit from its stalk. Again, with his arrows he also cut off the arms of some monkeys: while, getting infuriated, he tore off the region of the ribs of the others. Oppressed with a hail of shafts by Mahāpārśwa, all the monkeys wore a dejected look from despondency and lost heart. Seeing his army frightened on being hard pressed by the ogre, Mahāpārśwa. Aṅgada, who was endowed with great impetuosity, exhibited his tempo like a sea on the full-moon days. Seizing hold of an iron bludgeon, which shone like the rays of the sun, Aṅgada, the foremost of the monkeys, flung it at Mahāpārśwa on the battlefield. Stunned by that blow, Mahāpārśwa for his part dropped senseless on the ground from his chariot alongwith the charioteer. Rushing forward from his battalion, which closely resembled a dark cloud, and seizing in fury a huge rock, resembling a mountain-peak, the celebrated Jāmbavān (the king of bears), who was full of ardour and exceedingly powerful and looked like a heap of black antimony, struck down his horses with impetuosity and shattered his well-known chariot. Having regained his consciousness after a while, Mahāpārśwa for his part, who was endowed with extraordinary might, pierced the celebrated Aṅgada once more with numerous arrows and struck Jāmbavān, the ruler of bears, with three arrows in the chest. He also struck Gavākṣa, with numerous shafts. Seized with anger on seeing Gavākṣa as well as Jāmbavān tormented with arrows, Aṅgada picked up a formidable iron bludgeon. Firmly grasping that iron bludgeon, which shone like the rays of the sun, with both hands and brandishing it with force, Aṅgada, son of Vālī, his eyes red with anger, hurled it with the intention of killing the ogre, Mahāpārśwa, who stood at a distance. Thrown by the mighty Aṅgada, that bludgeon for its part knocked the bow with the arrow set to it from the ogre’s hand as also his helmet. Nay, approaching the ogre with all speed, the glorious Aṅgada, son of Vālī, full of rage, slapped him on the temple (root of the ear), shining with an earring. Provoked to anger, Mahāpārśwa, for his part, who was endowed with great impetuosity and extraordinary splendour, seized a huge axe in one hand. Extremely enraged, the ogre hurled that stainless and solid axe, which had been washed in oil and sharpened thereby, and was made of steel, at the son of Vālī. Full of fury, the celebrated Aṅgada, however, evaded the axe, which had been aimed with violence at his left shoulder bone. The aforesaid Aṅgada, who was the equal of his deceased father in prowess and was extremely enraged, clenched his adament-like fist. Nay, knowing, as he did, the vital parts of the body, he let fall the fist, which impinged like the thunderbolt on the bosom of the ogre in the vicinity of his breasts. Due to its impact the bosom of the ogre burst open and he fell down dead on the ground in that major conflict. On Mahāpārśwa having been struck down on the ground, his army got confused, while a violent rage actually took possession of Rāvaṇa on the battlefield. A very high-pitched roar rose among the monkeys, who felt greatly rejoiced. (1—24)

Meaning

A loud clamour, which resembled the noise of gods, accompanied by their ruler, Indra, followed, rendering asunder, as it were, with its vibrations the city of Laṅkā, including its attics and ornamental gates. (25)

Meaning

Nay, hearing to his rage the loud uproar of the gods (lit., the dwellers in heaven) as well as of the monkeys (the denizens of the forest), Rāvaṇa, the lord of ogres, the avowed enemy of Indra, stood on the battlefield once more, prepared for a conflict. (26)