Thereupon there ensued a terrible encounter capable of making down erect between the thousand-armed Arjuna, the king of men, and the twenty-armed Ravana, the king of Raksasas.
सहस्रबाहोस्तद्युद्धं विंशद्वाहोश्च दारुणम्। नृपराक्षसयोस्तत्र आरब्धं रोमहर्षणम्॥