Note 391 — YUDDHAKĀNDAM. (continued 6)
Manmatha Nath Dutt translation
The commentator has a characteristic note. 'This dart, having pierced the foe, used always to return to Rāvana. But Rāma, who was the Lord himself, having spoken to it as he did, it could not this time go back; and Rāma snapped it, which none else could do.'!—T.