[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.194 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.194 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.194 - **Language:** English ### [c9.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.194) By now all the important and prominent Rākṣasas were killed. At last Rāvaṇa himself entered the battlefield. His first encounter was with Lakṣmaṇa. Then the fighting turned into one between Rāma and Rāvaṇa. The former broke the bow of Rāvaṇa and did not want to fight with the weaponless Rākṣasa King. Next day Rāvaṇa brought Pātāla Rāvaṇa and Kumbhodara to Laṅkā. Both of them entered Rāma’s camp during night, but Pātāla Rāvaṇa, who realised that nothing could be achieved there returned to Pātāla with Kumbhodara. He built a tunnel from Pātāla upwards to earth, where in the fort created by Hanūmān’s tail twisted in a circle lay Śrī Rāma and others. The tunnel opened into this ‘fort’, and Pātāla Rāvaṇa and his brother made Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa unconscious by making them inhale sammohana medicine and carried them off into Pātāla. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa were laid in the court-yard of a Kālī temple to be sacrificed to Mahākālī the very same night. Arrangements for the sacrifice were completed. - [Previous: c9.193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.193) - [Next: c9.195](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.195) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.194) · Pramāṇa