And tell him of his foemen's fall.”

He ceased: o'erpowered by shaft and spell

The sons of Raghu reeled and fell.

The Rákshas on their bodies gazed;

And, mid the shouts his followers raised,

Sped back to Lanká to relate

In Rávaṇ's hall the princes' fate.

Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs.

The shades of falling night concealed