Beholding Sumali slain and reduced to ashes by Vasu and being assailed by the deities the Räksasa host fled into diverse directions. And collecting all the Rākşasas stood there the highly powerful Meghanāda, enraged, the son of Ravana.
सुमालिनं हतं दृष्ट्वा वसुना भस्मसात्कृतम्। स्वसैन्यं विद्रुतं चापि लक्षयित्वादितं सुरैः॥ ततः स बलवान्क्रुद्धो रावणस्य सुतस्तदा। निवर्त्य राक्षसान्सन्मेिघनादो व्यवस्थितः॥