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Rama and Lakshmana Join the Battle

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As the rakshasas drive the monkeys back from the walls, Rama and Lakshmana enter the fight. Rama rains down a net of arrows like storm clouds, killing the rakshasas, while Lakshmana picks off those stationed on the fortifications with iron arrows. With Lanka breached and victory in sight, Rama orders the army to withdraw.

The rakshasas had rallied. They drove the monkeys back from the walls with a shower of arrows. The battle had become a close, brutal struggle — fighters pulling each other by the hair, devouring with nails and teeth, dying without letting go. Then Rama entered the fight. Like clouds releasing rain, he rained down a net of arrows. The shafts found the stalkers of the night wherever they stood, and killed them. Lakshmana — the indefatigable one, the firm-bowed Soumitri — sought out the rakshasas stationed on the fortifications. He killed them with iron arrows, one by one. Lanka was breached. The objective towards victory had been attained. On Raghava's orders, the army withdrew.

Aranyaka Parva, Chapter 565