Chapter 24 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 24

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 24.27

तितत्य च धनु मि तूण्याश्चोद्धृत्य सायकान् ॥ क्रोधमाहारयत् तीव्र वधार्थं सर्वरक्षसाम्। दुष्प्रेक्ष्यश्चाभवत् क्रुद्धो युगान्ताग्निरिव ज्वलन्॥

titatya ca dhanu mi tūṇyāścoddhṛtya sāyakān || krodhamāhārayat tīvra vadhārthaṃ sarvarakṣasām| duṣprekṣyaścābhavat kruddho yugāntāgniriva jvalan||

English Meaning

Then stretching his dreadful bow, and swiftly taking out shafts, (Rāma) for compassing the destruction of the entire body of the Rākşasas, waxed furiously enraged. And like to the flaming fire at the universal dissolution, he, growing wroth, was incapable of being looked i at.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)