केचिद्वेपथुमासेदुरम्ये दवर्थमुत्तमम् । |
43. Some attained (experienced) tremor, others extreme agony, a few (began) vomitting blood, but none (attained) splendour.
44. Thereafter, (as if ) like a deer hurt in its right side approaching the hunter, like one thirsty in the desert running in the direction of a forest confiagration, like a snake running towards the lord of birds (Garuda) with his ferocious beak, the three headed demon (Trisiras) approached the scion of Raghus.
45. (A moment later), Trisiras was standing there with all his heads cut off by sharp arrows, like a mountain whose peaks had been broken off by an earthquake, and as a warning about the imminent annihilation of the entire race and (as such) instilled terror in the demons.
Here ends Canto IV named |
THE DISCOMFITURE OF SURPANAKHA |
( Here unds Pt. IV of Prakrna-Kanda ) |