Then stringing his bow, Rāma, speedily aiming at the Rākşasa, pierced him with sharpened shafts; and (then) from his bow-string let go seven shafts, having their feathered parts plaited with good, furnished with great velocity, and coursing like Suparna or the wind.
ततः सज्यं धनुः कृत्वा रामः सुनिशिताशरान्। सुशीघ्रमभिसंधाय राक्षसं निजघान ह॥ धनुषा ज्यागुणवता सप्त बाणान् मुमोच ह। रुक्मपुङ्खान् महावेगान् सुपर्णानिलतुल्यगान्॥