The two forces were evenly matched. All the best warriors of the Kalaiyyan and Aaiyyanist Eruvaayan kingdoms had been assembled. The old King of the Aaiyyanist Eruvaayan Kingdom, the Queen and Princess sat on the hillside and watched as the battle unfolded. Likewise, Queen Sironemaniyaa of the Kalaiyyan kingdom sat on the opposite hillside with her Tantric advisers and watched and planned the engagement.
Remember, at this time both generals of the armies were renowned scholars. Sage KalShivayan on the Kalaiyyan side, who as you recall was the head of the Temple and master who found Delviniyan at an early age and brought him up. The Aaiyyanist's had Aaiyyani Asweenikaaya as their general, who taught the children (including Delviniyan) and the master warriors the art of meditation, philosophy and battle.
Both sets of warriors were blessed with the skills of combat, meditation, strategy and focus and during the day many had died on both sides. Aaiyyanist Prince Paamaranyaan was in the centre of the battle but his guardian warriors were slain and he was battling alone. Queen Sironemaniyaa and Sage KalShivayan saw this and sent word to dispatch the most proficient assassin warriors to attack the Prince and turn the tide of the battle.
Now, most Aaiyyanists reading this will think that this is non-chivalrous, or against the true conduct of being; but Sage KalShivayan could see the wider universal truth. He thought that if the Prince died, the immediate morale of the Aaiyyanists would be broken and their army might scatter despite their Yogic training. We know in hindsight that this is incorrect thinking, but the ancient Kalaiyyan Sage thought that this would happen. Sage KalShivayan also premised that if the Prince was killed, in the long term there would be one less heir to continue 'the Aaiyyanist will'. Tantric Sage KalShivayan also had esoteric knowledge and foresight, and knew that in a masked opaque future all traces of Dravidian Aaiyyanism would be almost lost... but he could not see fully into the extent of the cataclysmic Kalaiyyan event, that would happen many thousands of years later.
There was one more subtle reason for attempting the life of the Prince in such a heinous manner. In Aaiyyanist tradition and lore, if someone is killed or harmed unjustly ... then their Atman is forever bound to the one that took that life, until the Karmic cycle is broken through the Dravidian practise of Yogic Arikaayan which extols forgiveness through all lifetimes. Thus if Sage KalShivayan killed Prince Paamaranyaan, then their fates would be intertwined. The Sage thought that by killing the Prince now, in the next life (or future lives) he would be able to turn the great Atman (soul) of the Prince to the Tantric path. Sage KalShivayan like all fully trained Dravidian Priests (then and now) remembered his previous lives and could choose the moment of rebirth, thus he would be able to recognise the young Prince in a future lifetime and teach him the path of Abichaara.
As the assassin warriors were ready to attack the Prince, the Aaiyyanist King Nekaankilaan saw what was happening... but it was too late. His son, the Prince was surrounded by the enemy warriors of the Kalaiyyans. The Tantric assassin masters were closing in to finish the Prince. At that moment it is said by Aaiyyanist scholars and commentators that the Universe slowed down, the clouds parted and stillness entered the arena... and through this stillness the hooded Delviniyan rode into the battle with his 1000 warriors and cleaved the battle field asunder, destroying all in their wake. The Kalaiyyan forces scattered, and Prince Paamaranyaan was saved and the battle turned in favour of the Aardra Aaiyyanists.
Delviniyan and his small force of trained Yogic warriors easily defeated the remaining forces of the Kalaiyyans. Both sides (the Aaiyyanist King Nekaankilaan and the Tantric Queen Sironemaniyaa) were both astounded by what they witnessed. A stranger in the field of battle had decimated the Kalaiyyans and his force of warriors seemed impenetrable and invincible.
Queen Sironemaniyaa performed the Arulliyaan Yoga (a form of Dravidian telepathy) to directly communicate with King Nekaankilaan via the psychic mind. She enquired: "Who is this warrior who leads this battalion of Yogic Masters? With this force, no one is able to defeat you... You have shamed yourself and the Harita form, for if we knew you had this weapon, we would never had declared war... The dying and injured parties are on your Karmic debt!"
King Nekaankilaan answered via the mind and replied: "I apologies, but I do not know who this usurper is? He fought for us, but we do not know him. I tried to defeat his psychic Aura, but it is masked... for he is absolutely a powerful master. I promise you via the Arikaayan (Karmic Promise) that I will find out who he is."
It must be noted that Sage KalShivayan of the Tantric Temple School of KutiKampalaam and Aaiyyani Asweenikaaya (who taught the Royal Aaiyyanist household) also did not know that it was Delviniyan who turned the tide of the battle. All their Yogic perception could not penetrate Delviniyan's hood, and the resonant aura of Murugan that enveloped it.
And so Delviniyan and his forces scattered the Kalaiyyan forces to the wind, and brought a stillness to the battlefield.