O Rāma. Then, they each fell to delving the bowels of the earth for the space of a Yojana in length and breadth, with their hands resembling thunder-bolts in feel, and with darts like to thunder-bolts, and with gigantic ploughshares. And being thus rived, the earth, O descendant of Raghu, began to send forth loud cries.
योजनायामविस्तारमेकैको धरणीतलम्। बिभिदुः पुरुषव्याघ्रा वज्रस्पर्शसमैर्भुजैः॥ शूलैरशनिकल्पैश्च हलैश्चापि सुदारुणैः। भिद्यमाना वसुमती ननाद रघुनन्दन॥