Hearing Rāghava's words, the exceedingly strong lord of the Rākşasas, overwhelmed with a mighty wrath, recalling enmity a gone, with burning shafts resembling the fire of Doom hit in encounter the exceedingly impetuous offspring of the Wind-god, who was bearing Rāghava.
राघवस्य वचः श्रुत्वा राक्षसेन्द्रो महाबलः। वायुपुत्रं महावेगं वहन्तं राघवं रणे॥ रोषेण महताविष्टः पूर्ववैरमनुस्मरन्। आजघान शरैर्दीप्तैः कालानलशिखोपमैः॥