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Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.38

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3.38

Thereupon, after Hanūmat had slain the Kiṅkaras—dreadful as the servants of the Lord of Ancestors, dispatched by the Ten-faced One who was enraged at the destruction of the pleasure-grove reported in haste by the troop of guarding rākṣasas—together with Jambumālin, son of Prahasta, and had mounted the arch of the temple;
Rāvaṇa, having once again heard of the slaughter of an endless host of night-roamers, sent forth five ministers headed by Prahasana, who possessed the valor of lions, [commanding:] "Capture the monkey alive!"
When he had dispatched those five as well to their death with the crossbar of the gateway, and was repeatedly proclaiming himself, "I am the envoy of Daśaratha's son!", the ruler of all the rākṣasas hurled forth prince Akṣa, his commander, to subdue Hanūmat.
Hanūmat, united with the glory of a hero, / reddening out of season the path of the stars / with the dust rising from the golden temple wall shattered by the impact of his chest, / hastened to the courtyard of the city of the Ten-faced One / to play a game of dice with the champion among the rākṣasas as the piece to be cast down onto the gaming board of the earth's surface.