Thai Rubbing from the North Wall of the Temple of Wat Po, Bangkok; Hanuman Kills Sahassateja
Sahatsadecha now realizes the full danger of his position. He snatches up his bow, meaning to kill Hanuman and make his escape, but the giant monkey tears it out of his hands like a toy from a child and throws it away. Exactly the same happens when the demon takes up his last weapon, a trident. Disarmed and without a single soldier to support him, Sahatsadecha falls to his knees before Hanuman and begs for his life.
Hanuman, however, ignores his pleas. He rolls the demon in his tail and brings him before Phra Ram. The monkey soldiers, their terror at the first sight of this thousand-headed monster forgotten, now revile and taunt him and drag his concubines to watch his death agonies. The demon pleads with each of his thousand tongues to be spared but Hanuman is unmoved.
"I shouldn't have thought death would have frightened a demon like you," he says flippantly. "Besides, where you're going you'll be in good company, and you'd only be lonely here." And with that, he takes up his trident and, to the applause of the monkeys, ends the life of the demon with one mighty blow.
With Sahatsadecha's concubines as the spoils of their victory, the monkey army returns triumphantly to camp.
