Assailed with fearful showers of arrows as with a mass of clouds, that one endowed with eminent strength, decreasing his dimensions, dropped on the top of Ravana's banner.
अभिवृष्टः शरौघेण मेघेनेव महाबलः। ह्रस्वं कृत्वा ततो रूपं ध्वजाग्रे निपपात ह।७७॥