Came the tremendous[980] spear he cast.

Hanúmán caught it as it flew,

And knapped it on his knee in two.

The giant saw the broken spear:

His clouded eye confessed his fear;

Yet at Sugríva's head he sent

A peak from Lanká's mountain rent.

The rushing mass no might could stay:

Sugríva fell and senseless lay.

The giant stooped his foe to seize,