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बध्वान मेघवद् भीममावाय परिघं कपिः । ( अथ सिचि वृद्धयधिकारः ) प्रक्षारिषुः शराम्भांसि तस्मिन् रक्षःपयोधराः । |
5. Picking up a terrific iron club, the monkey thundered like a cloud. They whose weapons were radiant, also roared like water (-bearing) clouds accompanied by lightning.
6. Like a river whose water-stream has swollen during the rains joining the sea, the demons confronted the monkey who was as steady as the ocean.
7. Brandishing his upraised tail and wielding a heavy iron club, he waited, after ascending the outer porch, (but) did not strike first.
( The Aorist Vrddhi group )
8. The clouds in the form of demons showered upon him (streams of) water in the form of arrows; (but) the mountain in the form of the monkey neither shook nor took fright.
9. "Halt," he shouted aloud and struck with the iron club in such a manner that it snatched away the lives of many enemies.
