Indrajit Fights Lakshmana and Angada
Indrajit, the son of Ravana, arrives on the battlefield and challenges Lakshmana to a duel. Lakshmana rushes forward, and a fierce battle erupts. When Angada joins the fight and destroys Indrajit's chariot with a tree, the rakshasa uses his maya (illusion) to become invisible, showering Rama and Lakshmana with arrows until both brothers fall from the sky to the ground.
The bull among rakshasas announced his name and challenged Lakshmana, who bore auspicious signs, to a duel. Lakshmana grasped his bow and arrows. Slapping the palms of his hands, he rushed forward, creating terror, like a lion among small animals.
A terrible and fierce battle started between those two. Both desired victory. Both were skilled in the use of divine weapons. Both defied each other in prowess.
When Ravana's son, supreme among strong ones, could not get the better of his adversary through arrows, he tried harder. With great force, he hurled many javelins at Lakshmana. But Soumitri sliced those down with his sharp arrows. Cut down, they fell to the ground.
Then Vali's illustrious son, Angada, uprooted a tree. Rushing at Indrajit with great force, he struck him on the head with it. But the brave Indrajit was unperturbed. He grasped a lance and hurled it at Angada's chest. Lakshmana cut it down. The brave Angada was near him, and Ravana's son struck the bull among monkeys on the side with a club. Vali's brave son ignored the blow. The one who was victorious over his enemies wrathfully hurled the trunk of a shala tree at Indrajit.
That tree, angrily hurled for the purpose of killing Indrajit, destroyed his chariot, together with the horses and the charioteer. With the horses and the charioteer dead, Indrajit jumped down from the chariot. He instantly disappeared through the use of maya (illusion).
Knowing that the rakshasa was skilled in many forms of maya and could become invisible, Rama arrived at that spot to protect his army. Indrajit aimed his arrows, obtained through boons, at Rama and pierced the immensely strong Lakshmana all over his body. The brave Rama and Lakshmana fought with Ravana's son, who remained invisible through the use of maya and fought them with his arrows. In great anger, he unleashed hundreds and thousands of arrows at all the limbs of those lions among men.
On seeing that he was invisible while showering down arrows, the monkeys grasped large rocks and took to the sky. But the rakshasa was invisible. Ravana's brave son used maya and oppressed them severely with his arrows.
Struck by the arrows, the two brave brothers, Rama and Lakshmana, fell down from the sky to the ground, like the sun and the moon. Aranyaka Parva, Chapter 569