Chapter 96 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 96

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 96.27

ततोऽन्यं पातयत्क्रोधाच्छङ्खदेशे महातलम् । महेन्द्राशनिकल्पेन तलेनाभिहतः क्षितौ ॥ पपात रुधिरक्लिन्नः शोणितं हि समुगिरन्। स्रोतोभ्यस्तु विरूपाक्षो जलं प्रस्रवणादिव॥

tato'nyaṃ pātayatkrodhācchaṅkhadeśe mahātalam | mahendrāśanikalpena talenābhihataḥ kṣitau || papāta rudhiraklinnaḥ śoṇitaṃ hi samugiran| srotobhyastu virūpākṣo jalaṃ prasravaṇādiva||

English Meaning

Immediately in anger he struck him down with a blow on his forehead. And being thus assailed with the fist resembling the thunder-bolt of Mahendra, he fell down on the earth bathed in a pool of blood.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)