Beholding his own action baffled the Rākşasa again took up many trees and hurled them at Śatrughna, who, with three or four hundred bent arrow, cut them all, one by one, into pieces.
तदृष्ट्वा विफलं कर्म राक्षसः पुनरेव तु। पादपान्सुबहूगृह्य शत्रुघ्नायासृजद्बली॥ शत्रुघ्नश्चापि तेजस्वी वृक्षानापततो बहून्। त्रिभिश्चतुर्भिरेकैकं चिच्छेद नतपर्वभिः॥