Chapter 31 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 31

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 31.22

असौरामस्तु सीदन्ती श्रीमानभ्युद्धरेन्महीम्॥ भित्वा वेलां समुद्रस्य लोकानाप्लावयेद् विभुः। वेगं वापि समुद्रस्य वायुं वा विधमेच्छरैः॥ संहत्य वा पुनर्लोकान् विक्रमेण महायशाः। शक्तः श्रेष्ठः स पुरुषः स्रष्टुं पुनरपि प्रजाः॥

asaurāmastu sīdantī śrīmānabhyuddharenmahīm|| bhitvā velāṃ samudrasya lokānāplāvayed vibhuḥ| vegaṃ vāpi samudrasya vāyuṃ vā vidhameccharaiḥ|| saṃhatya vā punarlokān vikrameṇa mahāyaśāḥ| śaktaḥ śreṣṭhaḥ sa puruṣaḥ sraṣṭuṃ punarapi prajāḥ||

English Meaning

That lord can sub-merge all creatures by riving the continents of the sea, and with his shafts can resist the onset of the occan, and the wind; and that illustrious one that foremost of persons by virtue of his vigour, destroying the worlds, can again create all creatures.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)