एकेन सह संगम्य रामेण रणमूर्धनि। अह्रश्चतुर्थभागेन निःशेषा राक्षसाः कृताः॥ महाबला महावीर्यास्तपसो विघ्नकारिणः। निहता राघवेणाजौ दण्डकारण्यवासिनः॥
ekena saha saṃgamya rāmeṇa raṇamūrdhani| ahraścaturthabhāgena niḥśeṣā rākṣasāḥ kṛtāḥ|| mahābalā mahāvīryāstapaso vighnakāriṇaḥ| nihatā rāghaveṇājau daṇḍakāraṇyavāsinaḥ||
English Meaning
In the company of one person only and at the commencement of the fight, by Rāma, within the one fourth part of a day, were exterminated all the highly powerful and valiant inhabitants of the forest of Dandaka always putting obstructions in the way of the ascetics.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)