{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry444.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry444.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry444.htm","text":"Brave R\u00e1ma, burning still to know\n The station of his artful foe,\n \n \n Gave to ten chieftains, mid the best\n Of all the host, his high behest.\n Swift rose in air the V\u00e1nar band:\n Each region of the sky they scanned:\n But R\u00e1van's son by magic skill\n Checked them with arrows swifter still,\n When streams of blood from chest and side\n The dauntless V\u00e1nars' limbs had dyed.\n The giant in his misty shroud\n Showed like the sun obscured by cloud.\n Like serpents hissing through the air,\n His arrows smote the princely pair;\n And from their limbs at every rent\n A stream of rushing blood was sent.\n Like Kins'uk trees they stood, that show\n In spring their blossoms' crimson glow.\n Then Indrajit with fury eyed\n Ikshv\u00e1ku's royal sons, and cried:\n \n \n 'Not mighty Indra can assail\n Or see me when I choose to veil\n My form in battle: and can ye,\n Children of earth, contend with me?\n The arrowy noose this hand has shot\n Has bound you with a hopeless knot;\n And, slaughtered by my shafts and bow,\n To Yama's hall this hour ye go.'\n \n \n He spoke, and shouted. Then anew\n The arrows from his bowstring flew,\n And pierced, well aimed with perfect art,\n Each limb and joint and vital part.\n Transfixed with shafts in every limb.\n Their strength relaxed, their eyes grew dim.\n As two tall standards side by side,\n With each sustaining rope untied.\n Fall levelled by the howling blast,\n So earth's majestic lords at last\n Beneath the arrowy tempest reeled,\n And prostrate pressed the battle field.\n \n \n \n \n460:1b Yajnas'atru, Mah\u00e1phr\u00e1va, Mahodar, Vajradanshtra, S'uka, and S\u00e1ran.\n460:2b Angad.\n460:3b A mysterious weapon consisting of serpents transformed to arrows which deprived the wounded object of all sense and power of motion.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto XLV.: Indrajit's Victory.","type":"page"}