When wroth, on angered Ráma sped.

By Dúshaṇ cheered, the demons cast

Their dread aside and rallied fast

With Sáls, rocks, palm-trees in their hands

With nooses, maces, pikes, and brands,

Again upon the godlike man

The mighty fiends infuriate ran,

These casting rocks like hail, and these

A whelming shower of leafy trees.

Wild, wondrous fight, the eye to scare,