Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.153

c9.153

There were seven big trees there known as Saptasālas. Bāli used to wrestle with the trees due to his overflowing vitality and power. (See under Saptasāla). Śrī Rāma went near the trees and suddenly fixed an arrow on his bow-string and shot it by drawing the bow, with the big toe of his right foot pressed against a rock. The arrow cut down the seven trees at one and the same time and then automatically to its quiver. Sugrīva was taken aback by this marvellous show of power.