... and escaped all hurt, though he staggered with the violence of the blow. And thus they continued attacking each other, parrying and replying, till their breath failed them and their hands and ... accompanied by these two suitors, and in the house a third was already seated. The name of the first was Tribikram, of the second Baman, and of the third Madhusadan. The three were equal in mind and body, ... nearly through the line of ambush. Then he gave the signal, and at that moment the thieves, rising suddenly from the bush fell upon the royal troops and drove them back in confusion. The king also...