Chapter 32 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 32

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 32.4

देवगन्धर्वभूतानामृषीणां च महात्मनाम्। अजेयं समरे घोरं व्यात्ताननमिवान्तकम्।६।। देवासुरविमर्देषु वज्राशनिकृतव्रणम्। ऐरावतविषाणाग्रैरुत्कृष्टकिणवक्षसम्॥

devagandharvabhūtānāmṛṣīṇāṃ ca mahātmanām| ajeyaṃ samare ghoraṃ vyāttānanamivāntakam|6|| devāsuravimardeṣu vajrāśanikṛtavraṇam| airāvataviṣāṇāgrairutkṛṣṭakiṇavakṣasam||

English Meaning

Unconquerable by high-souled saints, celestials, Gandharvas and all creatures; terrible like the Destroyer with his mouth wide open; his persons containing scars* of wounds inflicted by the thunder bolt and the lightings, in the war between the gods and Asuras; his breast bearing marks of attacks made by Airāvata with the ends of his tusks. *This reminds one of Milton: of Belzebub, he says, His person Deep scars of thunder had intrenched-Par, Lost-Book I.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)