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When Dooshan saw his army so much hurt, he sent his 5,000 Raakshas to attack Raam together. They did attack with trees, boulders, tridents, but Raam made their efforts fail and He Himself attacked them. He used Ardhchandra arrow and shivered Dooshan's bow, killed his four horses with four arrows, and cut his Saarathee's head with His arrows. Dooshan picked up the Mudgad (mace) and threw it on Raam, but Raam cut his both arms with His two arrows, so the Mudgad fell down on the ground along with Dooshan. 

Seeing the fall of Dooshan, celestials said "splendid, splendid" but three Raakshas - Mahaakapaal, Sthoolaaksh, and Pramaathee - attacked Raam with trident, Pattish (spear) and Parishwadh (axe) respectively. Raam also shot them with His arrows. Mahaakapaal was killed, Pramaathee was also killed and Sthoolaaksh's eyes were filled with arrows. Thus all the three were killed. Then Raam killed the remaining 5.000 Raakshas also.

Then Khar himself came forward with his 12 mighty warriors - Shyengaamee, Prithugreev, Yagyashatru, Vihangam, Durjaya, Karveeraaksh, Parush, Kaalkaarmuk, Hemmaalee, Mahaamaalee, Sarpasya and Rudhiraaksh, releasing their best arrows. Raam killed the remaining Raakshas - killed 100 Raakshas with Karnikaa arrows; and then killed 1,000 Raakshas with 1,000 arrows.

Thus lone Raam, lone human, and lone foot soldier killed 14,000 Raakshas. Now remained only Khar, Trishiraa and some more warriors in the battlefield. Raam killed those remaining warriors also so Khar proceeded towards Raam on his chariot.

Sarg 27 - Raam-Trishiraa Fight

Seeing Khar going to Raam, Trishiraa said - "Let me do this work. You will see me killing Raam. I take vow on my weapons that I will definitely kill Raam. Either I will kill Raam, or He will kill me, so look at the fight and be the spectator. If I kill Raam, then we will happily return home, and if I get killed then you come to fight with Him." Khar permitted that.

So Trishiraa came to fight with Raam riding on his chariot like three-peaked mountain. Raam tried to stop him. It was a fierce fight between them. Trishiraa shot three arrows at Raam's head. Raam said some harsh words to make him angry and then He shot 14 arrows at Trishiraa's chest. He killed his horses with 4 arrows, his Saarathee with 8 arrows and shot 3 arrows at his three heads. Trishiraa fell down with his heads. Now Khar proceeded.

Sarg 28 - Raam-Khar Fight - 1

Khar got scared with the death of Dooshan and Trishiraa and got sad on the destruction of such a large army. Still he proceeded towards Raam with his bow and arrows like Namoochi got on Indra and started shooting at Raam. Raam also shot many arrows at Khar. Arrows, shot by both of them, covered the sky.

Khar used Naaleek (tubular), Naaraach (iron arrows) and Vikarni (crescent-edged arrows) named arrows at Raam. Khar made Raam tired. First Khar cut Raam's bow at the place of its hold an shot seven arrows at His crucial parts, then shot 1,000 arrows at Him. This attack cut Raam's armor. His whole body was wounded with Khar's arrows. Raam got infuriated and flared up like a fumeless fire. 

Raam picked the bow given by Agastya Muni and shot arrows from it and cut Khar's flag. Enraged at this Khar shot four arrows at Raam's chest which drenched Raam's body in blood. Then Raam shot six arrows - one at Khar's head, two at his both arms and three crescent-like arrows at his chest. Then He shot 13 Naaraach (iron arrows) - one arrow at the yoke of chariot, four at his four horses and eight at his Saarathee's head. 

Then with three arrows Raam broke his chariot's shaft, with two arrows the axle, and with 12 arrows Khar's bow. Seeing himself without the chariot and charioteer, Khar came down with his Gadaa in the battle field.

Trishiraa
Means with three heads. Name of a Raakshas who had three heads.

Trishiraa offered his services in accordance of that the younger or lower paeople the elder and higher people should not do the work.

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