Thereupon the graceful and exceedingly effulgent Rāghava-foremost of those accomplished in noble arms-resisted that weapon with a powerful Gandharva weapon.
तदत्रं राघवः श्रीमानुत्तमास्त्रविदां वरः। जघान परमात्रेण गान्धर्वेण महाद्युतिः॥