Thereupon the highly effulgent and powerful Rāma, taking up his bow, entered the Rākşasa host and began to make a downpour of arrows.
ततो रामो महातेजा धनुरादाय वीर्यवान्। प्रविश्य राक्षसं सैन्यं शरवर्ष ववर्ष च॥