Beholding Rāvana in the encounter thus actively engaged in the discharged of arrows, Kakuthstha, smiling set up pointed shafts, and discharged them by hundreds and thousands.
व्यायच्छमानं तं दृष्ट्वा तत्परं रावणं रणे॥ प्रहसन्निव काकुत्स्थः संदधे निशिताञ्छरान्। स मुमोच ततो बाणाञ्छतशोऽथ सहस्रशः॥