Thereat, the Wind-god's son, the mighty Hanumān, (Mārutatmaja-son to the Wind-god, left out on the score of redundency) waxing enraged, violently uprooting a huge pillar of the edifice, plated with gold, and having an hundred borders, began to whirl it (in the air). (The reader is powerfully reminded of a like feat of Manoah's son-'the Herculean Samson') And the fire generated there thus, burnt down the entire edifice.
ततो वातात्मजः क्रुद्धो भीमरूपं समास्थितः॥ प्रसादस्य महांस्तस्य स्तम्भं हेमपरिष्कृतम्। उत्पाटयित्वा वेगेन हनूमान्मारुतात्मजः॥ ततस्तं भ्रामयामास शतधारं महाबलः। तत्र चाग्निः समभवत्प्रासादश्चाप्यदह्यत ॥