व्यायच्छमानं तं दृष्ट्वा तत्परं रावणं रणे॥ प्रहसन्निव काकुत्स्थः संदधे निशिताञ्छरान्। स मुमोच ततो बाणाञ्छतशोऽथ सहस्रशः॥
vyāyacchamānaṃ taṃ dṛṣṭvā tatparaṃ rāvaṇaṃ raṇe|| prahasanniva kākutsthaḥ saṃdadhe niśitāñcharān| sa mumoca tato bāṇāñchataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ||
English Meaning
Beholding Rāvana in the encounter thus actively engaged in the discharged of arrows, Kakuthstha, smiling set up pointed shafts, and discharged them by hundreds and thousands.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)