Thereat Rāma and Lakşmana, cognizant of time and place, pleased+, sundered its arms off its shoulders with their daggers. They were pleased because they cut off its arms with ease like to the trunks of a plantain tree.
ततस्तौ देशकालज्ञौ खङ्गाभ्यामेष राघवौ। अच्छिन्दन्तां सुसंहृष्टौ बाहू तस्यांसदेशयोः ॥