Cleaves swift-advancing billows, he

Charged with impetuous onset through

The foe, and cleft the host in two.

Sugríva ran, the king to meet:

A hill uprooted from its seat

He hurled, with trees that graced the height

Against the rover of the night:

But cleft with shafts that checked its way

Harmless upon the earth it lay.

Then fiercer Rávaṇ's fury grew,