Indrajit sallied forth, a peerless champion, seized with fury at the news of his brother’s death. When Hanuman saw this fierce warrior approach, he ground his teeth and with a roar rushed out to meet him.

He rooted up a tree of enormous size and swept the prince of Lanka from his chariot. As for the valiant warriors who accompanied him. Hanuman seized them one by one and crushed them against his own body.

Having disposed of them, he closed with Meghanada; it was like the encounter of two lordly elephants. He struck the opponent with his fist and bounded up a tree, while for a moment Meghanada lay unconscious.

But he got up again and resorted to many a delusive device; still the Son of the Wind could not be vanquished.

When Meghanada fitted Brahma’s weapon to his bow, Hanuman thought to himself, ‘If I yield not to Brahma’s own weapon, its infinite glory will be cast to the winds.’

Meghanada shot the monkey with Brahma’s dart, but even as he fell he overthrew a great many of his foes. When he saw that the monkey had swooned, he bound him with a noose and carried him off.

(Said Shiva -) Now, Parvati, is it conceivable that the envoy of the Lord, whose very name enables the wise to sever the bonds of birth and death, should come under bondage? No, it was in the service of the Lord that Hanuman allowed himself to be bound.