Khara watched his troops being trounced and the way Rama countered the trees and boulders hurled at him. Defying the most powerful weapons, Rama impaled the four horses yoked to the enemy chariot while one decapitated the charioteer. Every arrow found its victim. Witnessing the massacre Dooshana seized his cudgel with hoops of gold and barbs of iron and came menacingly towards Rama, who slashed his arms. The creatures of the earth lauded him even as the demon fell to the ground like a wounded elephant. Meanwhile, impelled by a common fate, the three generals of Khara, made one more bid on Rama's life. Quick as a host going to greet a guest, Rama struck and severed the head of general Mahakalpa. Pramathi, another general, fell to the fury of myriad arrows, while more pierced general Sutikshna's eyes. Rama's rage was boundless as he wiped out the rest of the army. Scattered like reeds on a sacrificial ground, bodies and weapons lay broken while their blood drenched the earth. Rama alone, a mortal and on foot, had slain fourteen thousand of the most demonic of rakshasas. Only Khara and Trisira lived to see the carnage. Incensed at the extermination of his clan, Khara once again charged at Rama.