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... will? Today shall the Rakshasa be slain by my angry shaft and Earth drink the blood of Viradha dead. (The wrath that was born in me against Bharat Page 313 for his lust of rule, I will loose upon Viradha as the Thunderer hurls his bolt against a hill.)" Canto Three1 Then Viradha spoke yet again and filled the forest with his voice. "Answer to my questioning, who... beauty? Workers of unrighteousness, who are ye, evil men, disgrace to the garb of the seer? I Viradha the Rakshasa range armed these tangled woods eating the flesh of the sages. This woman with the noble hips shall be my spouse, but as for you, I will drink in battle your sinful blood." Evil-souled Viradha speaking thus wicked words, Sita heard his haughty speech, alarmed she shook in her apprehension... "Kshatriyas accomplished in virtue know us to be, farers in this forest, but of thee we would know who thou art that rangest Dundac woods." And to Rama of enormous might Viradha made reply: "Java's son am I, Shatahrida was my dam and Viradha am I called by all Rakshasas on earth ..." The Slaying of Dhumraksha 2 Loud in their gladness and the lust 'of fight Shouted the forest-host ...

... have all been tried and found infallible by me on the battlefield, by the help of which the raksasa Marica for his part was made short work of (by me) as also Khara along with Dusana, (the rākshasa) Viradha too was disposed of in a hole in the ground in the Kraunca wood, and Kabandha in the Dandaka forest, by which (again) were the (seven) sal trees (at Kiskindha) and mountains too were transfixed as ...

... entered the Dandaka forest, they say, anticipating the renewed visit of the people of Ayodhyā to that region. (39-40) Entering the great forest (of Dandaka) and having dispatched the rakshasa Viradha, the lotus-eyed Rāma saw one after another the two sages Sarabhahga and Sutīksna as well as Agastya and his brother (Idhmavāhana). At the instance of Agastya himself he accepted with supreme delight ...