And raise on end each shuddering hair,

As with the fiends who loved to rove

By night heroic Ráma strove!

The giants in their fury plied

Ráma with darts on every side.

Then, by the gathering demons pressed

From north and south and east and west,

By showers of deadly darts assailed

From every quarter fiercely hailed,

Girt by the foes who swarmed around,