Armed with many a weapon, all the warriors pressed forward to the fray, challenging the foe again and again. Smiting the bears and monkeys with iron bludgeons and tridents, they sorely discomfited them.

Stricken with terror (continues Shiva) the monkeys began to flee, although, Uma, they would come out victorious in the end. Exclaimed one, ‘Where are Angad and Hanuman? Where are the valiant Nala, Nila and Dvivida?’

When Hanuman heard that his army was routed, that valiant warrior held his position at the western gate, where Meghanada led the defence. The gate, however, would not give way and great was the opposition.

Then the Son of the Wind was seized with fury, and the warrior, formidable as Doom, gave a loud roar. He made a bound and sprang upon the top of Lanka fort, and seizing a rock, rushed at Meghanada.

He shattered Meghanada’s chariot, overthrew the charioteer and planted a kick on Meghanada’s breast. Another charioteer, who saw the distress of Meghanada, threw him on to his chariot and drove him home in haste.

When Angad heard that Hanuman had made his way into the fort alone, the son of Bali, that doughty warrior, reached the fort in a single bound as a monkey would do in sport.

In the fight that ensued, the two monkeys let loose their fury against the foe and fixed their minds on Rama’s mighty power; then they sprang with a rush to the top of Ravana’s palace and shouted, ‘The king of Kosala to the rescue!’