Their conventional methods having failed, the demons now resort to pounding Hanuman to death in a mortar.  For a while the diamond-hard monkey bears patiently with their attempts to make an impression on him, even encouraging them with calls of, "That's the stuff, friends, lay it on as hard as you can," and the like.  But suddenly he leaps out of the mortar, tears the pestle out of the hands of a demon and lays about him with it, cracking demon heads left and right.