Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.143

c9.143

16) Khara killed. Having heard about the disfigurement of Śūrpaṇakhā Khara sent fourteen Rākṣasas to Rāma's āśrama. Lakṣmaṇa killed them very easily. Next, Khara, his brothers Dūṣaṇa and Triśiras with fourteen thousand Rākṣasa soldiers came to fight Rāma. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa killed them also. This saddened Śūrpaṇakhā very much and she reported the entire affair to Rāvaṇa at Laṅkā. She told him that Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa were very courageous warriors and he was not to enter into direct fighting with them, but was to abduct Sītā whose loss would cause Rāma's death. She also assured Rāvaṇa that if Rāma died, Lakṣmaṇa would himself end his life.