At last with a savage bound he clutched them both, but before he could dash them to the ground, they twisted his arms and escaped. Again in his fury he took up his ten bows in his hands and with his winged arrows smote and wounded the monkeys.

Having rendered Hanuman and the other monkeys senseless and seeing that ‘the bright lamp of the Sun had set,’ the Ten-headed rejoiced; but when the valiant Jambavan saw all the monkey chiefs in swoon, he rushed forward.

The throng of bears who were with them began to hurl rocks and trees upon Ravana with repeated shouts of defiance. The mighty Ravana, in a fit of renewed fury, seized a number of warriors by the foot and began to dash them to the ground.

Jambavan flew into a rage when he saw the havoc wrought on his host, and gave Ravana a savage kick on the breast.

As soon as the dread blow smote him on the breast, Ravana fell senseless from his chariot to the ground, grasping a bear in each of his twenty hands, like bees reposing by night in the folds of the lotus. Seeing him unconscious, the king of the bears, Jambavan, struck him with his foot again and then returned to the Lord. Perceiving that it was night, the charioteer lifted him on to the car and tried to revive him.

On recovering from their swoon, the bears and monkeys all returned to the Lord, while all the rangers of the night rallied round Ravana in the utmost consternation.

That same night Trijata called on Sita and told her all that had happened. When she heart how the enemy’s heads and arms had multiplied, Sita was sorely dismayed.