Ravana, getting at the trees, severed them (by means of his arrows), and poured on the Firegod's son terrific showers of shafts.
स तान्वृक्षान्समासाद्य प्रतिचिच्छेद रावणः। अभ्यवर्षच्च घोरेण शरवर्षेण पावकिम्॥