Hari Om.
Let us begin the sixtieth sarga of the yuddha kAnDam by offering our prostrations at the lotus feet of SrIrAma and our sathguru.
With his younger brother kumbhakarNa gone, rAvaNa began to feel te ground slipping from under his feet. He was devastated and a sense of remorse was felt by him as he recalled the counsel of vibhIshaNa, prahasta and kumbhakarNa and his mistake in not following the same. He was however head over heels into the battle. He was low on inspiration when his other children narAntaka, dEvAntaka, triSIrA and atikAya along with his brothers mahOdara and mahApArSwa consoled him and offered him hope just like everyone before them did. The demon king felt a fresh lease of life dawning upon him. The six of them accompanied by a vast army of demons went to the battlefield. The vAnaras squared up with them and as the demon narAntaka was stepping up the ante riding a horse, the prince angada was commissioned by sugrIva. In the battle between them, angada vanquished narAntaka denting the demon’s army further. Onwards…
Watching narAntaka fall, the key warriors among the demons dEvantaka, triSirA and mahOdara – all of them in the lineage of the sage pulastya, screamed. mahOdara mounted on an elephant, narAntaka’s brother dEvAntaka grabbed his iron beam and triSirA got into his mighty chariot yoked by the best of horses. All of them attacked prince angada at once. Responding to the three attacking at once, the valorous angada uprooted a giant tree and hurled it at dEvantaka like lord indra would hurl his thunderbolt. That tree was mitigated in the skies by unerring arrows shot by triSirA. Watching the tree mitigated thus, angada stepped up, uprooted several trees and began raining trees on them. All the trees were nullified by triSirA with his arrows. Then triSirA attacked angada with his arrows and hurt him. dEvantaka also ran to angada and hit him on his chest with his beam. mahOdara also did so from his elephant. As the three warriors attacked the prince angada at once, the heroic son of vAlI was not agitated at all. The extremely agile angada, demonstrating peerless valour, slapped the elephant that mahOdara was riding and it writhed in pain. At once, angada pulled out the tusk of that elephant and attacked dEvantaka with that! Beaten badly with the tusk, the demon dEvantaka bled all over and resembled a tree withered by the winds.
Recovering from the battering, the valorous dEvantaka attacked angada back with his huge beam and briefly felled him in the battle. Down on his knees, angada bore the hit and again got up. Seizing the opportunity, triSirA shot three arrows pointed at the forehead of angada who was smarting from the blow of dEvantaka.
In the meanwhile hanumAn and nIla noticed that angada was surrounded by three warriors and rushed there. The commander nIla hurled mountain peak at rAvaNa’s son triSirA who shot it down with hundreds of arrows. Enthused by that, dEvantaka was delighted and attacked hanumAn with his parigha (iron beam). Taking stance to face the oncoming dEvantaka, hanumAn unleashed a thunderous blow on his forehead. Hit hard by the mighty son of the wind god, the demon dEvantaka’s eyes, teeth and tongue popped out of his head and he fell down dead!
Livid at the fall of dEvantaka, triSirA hurled a barrage of arrows at the chief nIla. mahOdara also attacked nIla at that time. Their seemed like the mountainous nIla was weathering a big downpour from the demon triSirA who resembled a dense dark cloud and his bow looked like the lightning! The commander in chief was hit all over his body with arrows and hit by mahOdara at the same time, he fell down severely injured. Recovering from the sevre blows, nIla heroically lifted a mountain and hurled it hard and fast at the demon mahOdara who was riding the elephant. Hit by that mountain unerringly, the demon mahOdara fell down dead just as the mountain collapses on impact of the thunderbolt.
Watching his uncle mahOdara fall thus, triSirA was extremely angry and showered a barrage of arrows on hanumAn. Responding to that hanumAn threw a mountain peak which was shot down into pieces by triSirA. Livid at that futile throw of the mountain, hanumAn jumped onto the chariot of triSirA and sheared his horses with his nails like an elephant is sheared by a lion. Then triSirA, the son of rAvaNa, summoned his deadly weapon Sakthi and hurled it at hanumAn. The best among the vAnaras, hanumAn watched that Sakthi that was approaching him menacingly like a meteor and taking it headon, caught it with his hand and broke it into pieces. The heroism of hanumAn in destroying the deadly weapon Sakthi was celebrated boisterously by the vAnaras.
Then the demon triSirA took out his sword and attacked hanumAn by hitting him on his chest. Injured by that swishing sword, hanumAn landed a mighty slap on triSirA’s chest. On impact of that slap, triSirA wreathed and the sword fell off his hand as he lost his consciousness. Picking up that sword of triSirA hanumAn, roared loudly sending shock waves among the demon ranks and attacked them hard. Shaken and woken up by that unbearable roar, triSirA got up and landed a blow on hanumAn. The sword wielding hanumAn gave a death glare to triSirA and holding his head, slayed him by severing his heads which were decked with dangling earrings like indra slayed the son of tvashTa (viSwarUpa). Those mountainoud heads of triSirA with eyes deep like volcanoes fell off from his body and hit the earth like stars fell off from the path of the sun. The boisterous roars of the vAnaras on that heroic act of hanumAn shook the earth and terrified the demons.
Another rAkshasa warrior matta, infuriated by the fall of triSirA, mahOdara, dEvantaka and narAntaka grabbed a flaming mace. That was made of iron and plated with gold, smeared with the blood of the enemy, famous for landing bleeding blows on the bodies of the foes and which had struck the heads of the best breeds of elephants. Like the fire at the time of deluge he began to torment the vAnara army with his mace. The warrior vAnara Rshabha jumped in to that frenzy amd stood infront of matta. Livid at him, matta landed a mighty blow on the chest of Rshabha and made him bleed heavily and fall briefly. Recovering his senses in a short time and enraged, clenched his fist and landed a mighty blow between the arms of that demon which made him fall unconscious. Then Rshabha, the son of the ocean, grabbed the mace of matta and roared loudly.
Fallen briefly as if he had lost his life, the demon matta recovered his senses, rose and hit Rshabha. The vAnara warrior also recovered his senses in a short time and rising up attacked matta and landed serial blows on his chest with his own mace! Succumbing to that relentless attack by Rshabha, the demon warrior matta fell down dead like a mountain undone by the thunderbolt. The demon ranks were demoralized to witness the fall of matta.
Livid at the fall of his brother matta, unmatta stepped up swirling his mace and tormenting the vAnara army. Spotting unmatta in action, the vAnara warrior gavAksha stepped in and hurled a huge mountain on that demon. The oncoming demon was destroyed into pieces by the mace of unmatta. The vAnara warrior was astonished to see the mountain thus pulverized and accosting unmatta, let out loud roars. The demon took his mace and landed a mighty blow on the chest of gaVaksha. Under the impact of that blow, gavAksha bled profusely and fell down senseless for a short while. He recovered senses in some time and slapped hard on the head of that mountainous demon. The slap was so hard that the teeth and the eyes of unmatta flew out of his and he fell down dead bleeding warm blood.
With the fall of that warrior brother of rAvaNa, the mighty army of the demons lay down their weapons and just to save their lives, fled the battlefield like an ocean that breached its banks.
Here we conclude the sixtieth sarga of the yuddha kAnDam of SrImath vAlmiKi rAmAyaNam and humbly offer it at the lotus feet of SrIrAma. Hari: Om!
jAi SrIrAma.
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