Enraged at the smiting. Rāma, with his ire aroused, but summoning up patience, took up in the encounter the bow of Indra endowed with exceeding vehemence; well as highly impetuous shafts having the resplendence of the solar rays. And then there began a furious encounter between those (two) eager for slaying each other confronting each other like to flaming lions.
धर्षणामर्षितो रामो धैर्य रोषेण लम्भयन्। जग्राह सुमहावेगमैन्द्रं युधि शरासनम्॥ शरांश्च सुमहावेगान्सूर्यरश्मिसमप्रभान्। तदुपोढं महद्युद्धमन्योन्यवधकाङ्गिणोः।। परस्पराभिमुखयोर्दृप्तयोरिव सिंहयोः॥