Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.188

c9.188

Even the Devas who witnessed the scene were alarmed. But Rāma sat there for sometime immersed in meditation and then a light emerged from his right eye, shot towards the north and disappeared in the horizon. At once Garuḍa appeared on the scene from the west and removed with his beak the nāgāstra from Lakṣmaṇa’s body. Lakṣmaṇa jumped up from his unconscious state; Sugrīva and others also regained consciousness. In the fighting that followed all the Rākṣasa leaders were killed. It was Hanūmān, who killed Kumbhakarṇa. At the time of his death Kumbhakarṇa made a last request to Rāma, i.e. his head should be cut off and thrown into the sea as otherwise the Rākṣasas would laugh at him to see the head from which the ears have been bitten off by monkeys. Accordingly Rāma got Hanūmān to throw Kumbhakarṇa’s head into the sea.