Close as Intorachit came to defeating the monkey army in the battle of the snake arrows, he has reason to deplore the fact that but for a piece of bad luck his efforts would have been crowned with complete victory.

It happened like this.  When the two armies had taken the field and the conflict had become general, Intorachit called on his ablest general, a demon with a good knowledge of the occult named Wirunyamuk, to take command of the army.  He explained that although his Nakabat arrow already possessed great potency, he wished to retire for a short time to endow it with even greater power.  Having told Wirunyamuk where he would conduct this ceremony and warned him that he was only to be disturbed in the case of the direst emergency, Intorachit put the command of the army into his hands and left the field.

He had not been gone long when the demons and giants became aware that their commander in chief had left them.  Despite Wirunyamuk's entreaties and commands, despite even the threats of their generals, they lost their confident ferocity and began to give ground before the eager monkeys.  To make a bad matter even worse, Wirunyamuk, with more valor than discretion, left the high ground from which he had been directing his troops and threw himself into the forefront of the battle.  The monkeys were quick to grasp this opportunity, and under Ongkot's direction one wing of Ram's army cut Wirunyamuk from the main body of his force and .called on him to surrender.

With his men around him going down before the swords of the monkeys, Wirunyamuk quickly recited a charm that made him invisible.  The monkeys, suddenly deprived of their prize, let out a great howl of disappointment.  Phra Ram, informed of what had happened, asked Pipeck what should be done, and the wise demon advised him to shoot his Paladjan arrow into the air.

Phra Ram drew back his bow and fired the arrow.  As it flew above the place where Wirunyamuk had been fighting, it disappeared and was replaced by a net of diamond arrows.  In the middle of the net, seated on the back of his great red-maned horse and struggling to free himself, was Wirunyamuk, no longer invisible.  With one bound, Hanuman was on his back and having unhorsed him and deprived him of his weapons, he dragged the unfortunate demon to the feet of Phra Ram.