Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.195

c9.195

Hanūmān had been frequently looking inside the fort. As soon as the absence of Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa was noticed, Sugrīva and others, under the leadership of Vibhīṣaṇa reached the Kālī temple through the tunnel. In the fighting that followed Hanūmān killed Pātāla Rāvaṇa and Aṅgada killed Mahodara. The only son of Pātāla Rāvaṇa, Sumāli, was crowned King of Pātāla. Rāvaṇa entered the field again against Rāma. Rāma shot the Mahendra arrow against Rāvaṇa. The arrow, which represented in itself the effulgence of Mahendra, the hardness of diamonds, the intensity of fire and Viṣṇu’s glow cut off the ten heads of Rāvaṇa. His physical body fell on earth and his spirit ascended to heaven.