सर्गः ४०
In which guards report the smashed grove, Ravana looses eighty thousand Kinkaras, and Hanuman bars them to death
Bird cries tree crashes and omens frighten Lanka — Rakshasis find smashed grove and huge dreadful Hanuman — Sita disowns knowledge calling stranger wish-formed rakshasa — Rakshasis tell Ravana of talking monkey and spared shishapa — Ravana burns and sends eighty thousand clubbed Kinkaras — Kinkaras rush like moths and strike Hanuman with clubs arrows — Hanuman roars tail-whirling and seizes iron gate bar — Hanuman slays Kinkaras and waits as survivors warn Ravana — Ravana orders unmatched Prahasta son to battle