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As the night fell, so night war started among them. It was very dark so monkeys ask "Are you Raakshas?" and Raakshas ask "Are you monkey?" Thus they started beating, hitting, and killing each other. "Kill him", "Cut him", "Where do you run", "Come here" etc sounds were echoing. Wearing gold armors Raakshas looked like mountains with herbs.

Mighty monkeys disturbed Raakshas army. They were pulling flags from elephants, chariots and break them with their teeth. Raam and Lakshman killed many visible and non-visible Raakshas. Horses and elephants were making strange kind of noises. Raakshas were happier in dark so they started coming towards Raam. Raam shot 6 arrows and killed 6 Raakshas - Yagyashtru, Durdharsh, Mahaapaarshwa, Mahodar, Vajradanshtra, Mahaakaay, Shuk and Saaran, These fiery arrows not only killed 6 Raakshas but also killed the Raakshas standing around them.

Angad killed Indrajeet's Saarathee and horses so Indrajeet had to hide himself. Raam, Lakshman, Devtaa Rishi etc praised Angad for his this brave action while Indrajeet got very angry with Angad on this situation. He started shooting  arrows from hiding. Indrajeet was fighting with Raam and Lakshman. He tied both of them with Naag Paash and shot snake arrows at them. When he could not catch them in his visible state, he tied them with cheating.

Sarg 45 - Preparation 

Then Raam ordered His 10 army chiefs to find out Indrajeet. Sushen's two sons, Neel, Angad, Sharabh, Dwivid, Hanumaan, Saamuprasth, and Rishbhskandh uprooted many trees and flew in the sky to find out about him. Indrajeet used Brahmaastra and stopped them going up. Monkeys got wounded and could not see anything. Thus Indrajeet started piercing bodies of all monkeys being invisible. He pierced Raam and Lakshman's bodies badly with his arrows.

Then invisible Indrajeet said - "When I fight being invisible then even Indra cannot see me, how can you see me?" Then he tied them with his Hawk (Cheel) arrows and said - "Now I send you to Yam Lok." Then he shot hundred of arrows at Raam and Lakshman and roared with happiness. He again shot many arrows at Raam and Lakshman. They could not see anything for a moment and fell down on the ground. There was no place left on their body without arrow.

Indrajeet used fast going, gold tailed and beautiful headed Naaraach, Ardh Naaraach, Bhall, Anjilik, Vatsadant, Sinhdanshtra, and Shur named arrows at Raam and Lakshman. Raam could not hold bow any more and fell down. Lakshman got very sad seeing Raam falling like this and started weeping. Hanumaan and other monkeys also gathered there, and everybody got very sad.

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