सर्गः २८
In which Rāma preaches doom to mace-bearing Khara, Khara boasts and hurls his blazing mace, and Rāma shatters it sky-high
Rāma lectures Khara on reaping evil like seasonal fruit — Rāma vows arrows will pierce Khara like snakes anthill — Rāma promises sages will watch Khara fall hellward — Khara mocks boasting as mark of common warriors — Khara claims mace can slay Rāma like Death itself — Khara hurls blazing mace burning trees and shrubs — Rāma shreds skyborne mace into fragments with arrows