O Rāma, having thus taken counsel together, with all the preparations complete, those hugebodied and redoubtable Rākşasa marched forth for conflict, mounted on cars, and elephants, and horses resembling elephants, and mules, and kine, and camels, and purpoises, and serpents, makaras, and tortoises, and fishes, and fowls resembling Garua himself, lions and tigers and boars and Srmaras and Camaras.' up with pride of prowess, the Raksasa Marica, leaving Lanka, and the enemies of the celestials went to the heavenly regions for battle, 1. How purpoises could be pressed into the service passes my conception, unless Sicumdra have any other meaning. 2. Wilson gives the meaning: (1) a kind of animal,' and (2) 'a young deer, 3. Bos Gruniens.
इति ते राम संमन्त्र्य सर्वोद्योगेन राक्षसाः॥ युद्धाय निर्ययुः सर्वे महाकाया महाबलाः। स्पन्दनैारणैश्चैव हयैश्च करिसंनिभैः॥ खरैर्गोभिरथोष्ट्रैश्च शिशुमारैर्भुजंगमैः। मकरैः कच्छपैर्मी विहंगैर्गरुडोपमैः॥ सिंहैव्या॑।र्वराहैश्च समरैश्चमरैरपि। त्यक्त्वा लङ्कां गताः सर्वे राक्षसा बलगर्विताः॥४९ प्रयाता देवलोकाय योद्धं दैवतशत्रवः।