And they soon overwhelmed that chief of the Rakshasas
with a shower of terrible weapons of various kinds.
And attacked by them thus, Kumbhakarna only laughed
at them and began to eat them up. And he devoured
those foremost of monkeys known by the name of Chala,
and Chandachala, and Vajravahu. And beholding
that fearful act of the Rakshasa, other monkeys
were frightened and set forth a loud wail of fear.
And hearing the screams of those monkey-leaders, Sugriva
boldly advanced towards Kumbhakarna. And that
high-souled king of the monkeys swiftly approaching
the Rakshasa, violently struck him on the head
with the trunk of a Sala tree. And though
the high-souled Sugriva always prompt in action broke
that Sala tree on the head of Kumbhakarna,
he failed to make any impression on that Rakshasa.
And then, as if roused from his torpor by that blow,
Kumbhakarna stretching forth his arms seized Sugriva
by main force. And beholding Sugriva dragged
away by the Rakshasa, the heroic son of Sumitra,
that delighter of his friends, rushed towards Kumbhakarna.
And that slayer of hostile heroes, Lakshmana, advancing
towards Kumbhakarna, discharged at him an impetuous
and mighty arrow furnished with golden wings.
And that arrow, cutting through his coat of mail and
penetrating into his body, passed through it outright
and struck into the earth, stained with the Rakshasa’s
blood. Kumbhakarna then, having his breast thus
bored through, released the king of monkeys. And
taking up a huge mass of stone as his weapon, the
mighty warrior Kumbhakarna then rushed towards the
son of Sumitra, aiming it at him. And as the Rakshasa
rushed towards him, Lakshmana cut off his upraised
arms by means of a couple of keen-edged shafts furnished
with heads resembling razors. But as soon as
the two arms of the Rakshasa were thus cut off, double
that number of arms soon appeared on his person.
Sumitra’s son, however, displaying his skill
in weapons, soon by means of similar arrows cut off
those arms also, each of which had seized a mass of
stone. At this, that Rakshasa assumed
a form enormously huge and furnished with numerous
heads and legs and arms. Then the son of Sumitra
rived, with a Brahma weapon, that warrior looking
like an assemblage of hill. And rent by means
of that celestial weapon, that Rakshasa fell
on the field of battle like a huge tree with spreading
branches suddenly consumed by heaven’s thunderbolt.
And beholding Kumbhakarna endued with great activity
and resembling the Asura Vritra himself, deprived
of life and prostrated on the field of battle, the
Rakshasa warriors fled in fear. And beholding
the Rakshasa warriors running away from the
field of battle, the younger brother of Dushana, rallying
them, rushed in great wrath upon the son of Sumitra.
Sumitra’s son, however, with a loud roar, received
with his winged shafts both those wrathful warriors,
Vajravega and Promathin, rushing towards him.