Srimad Valmiki Ramayanam ARANYAKANDAM Sarga 26 Dushana sent to the abode of Yama: When Dushana saw his warriors slaughtered by Sri Rama’s all conquering hand, he summoned and commanded five thousand giants, who were invincible, bravest of the brave, of terrible impetuosity, to rain ceaseless showers of spears, swords, clubs, rocks and trees upon his foe. Undismayed the virtuous Sri Rama with casual indifference weakened the commotion caused by the aforesaid missiles hurled at him with his arrows. Summoning his fury, his countenance now like blazing fire, Sri Rama poured darts on the fiery fiends and their lord Dushana, and the fiends in frenzied rage cast their missiles on Sri Rama. Sri Rama with his incisive dart cleft Dushana’s bow, and with a volley of arrows slew the gold decked steeds drawing Dushana’s chariot, then severed the head of Dushana’s charioteer, and also rendered Dushana without a chariot. Dushana with his bow now cleft into two seized his strong, heavy, dreaded, ponderous mace and in savage fury rushed towards Sri Rama. Sri Rama with his shafts; in a steady aim lopped the demon Dushana’s hands shoring the mace, and with it the ponderous mace dropped to the ground and the mighty demon Dushana reeled and fell to the ground lifeless. The celestials witnessing the violent turmoil exclaimed, ‘Esteem to Sri Rama, nobly done, you have fought well, Kakutstha’s son!!!’ Enraged to see their chieftain dead, the three generals Mahakapala with his ponderous pike, Sthulaksha with flinging spear, and Pramathi with a swinging axe, all charged at Sri Rama with unmatched ferocity and were swiftly and effortlessly dispatched to the kingdom of Yama, by Sri Rama. Soon the rest of Dushana’s band were torn and sent to the gloomy realms of Yama. On coming to know of the fate of all the giant band and Dushana’s fall; Khara impelled by rage, in fury called his mighty chiefs, “Now Dushana and his armed train humbled, they lie prostrate on the plain; do not let Sri Rama escape from your wrath, lead a mightier army, you fight with darts of every shape and kill this wretched man.” Khara with twelve of his generals and the remnant crew proceeded straight to the combat arena with their armaments. With his shafts Sri Rama clinically destroyed the fiends in that gory encounter. The battlefield was a picture of sundered bows, red with bloody stain of the fallen ogres bathed in blood with disheveled hair of the night stalkers lying prostrate on the ground and land drenched with clotted blood, all in all the land was like an awful hell whose floor was thick with flesh and gore of fourteen thousand ogres of terrible aspect, impious heart and bloody hand. Out of that entire army only the great car warrior Khara, as also Trisirasa and Sri Rama survived. When Khara saw the army that he had triumphantly led till now; all smitten dead by Sri Rama’s nobler might he fiercely glared and drove fast against Sri Rama
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