धनुर्व्यादितदीप्तास्यं शरार्चिषममर्षणम्। चापबाणधरं तीक्ष्णं शत्रुसेनापहारिणम्॥ राज्यं सुखं च संत्यज्य जीवितं चेष्टमात्मनः। नात्यासादयितुं तात रामान्तकमिहार्हसि ॥
dhanurvyāditadīptāsyaṃ śarārciṣamamarṣaṇam| cāpabāṇadharaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ śatrusenāpahāriṇam|| rājyaṃ sukhaṃ ca saṃtyajya jīvitaṃ ceṣṭamātmanaḥ| nātyāsādayituṃ tāta rāmāntakamihārhasi ||
English Meaning
O Rāvana, to approach Räma renouncing your kingdom, happiness and love of life, who is like to death itself and has bow for his widened and flaming mouth, and arrows for his rays and who is irrepressible, of mighty prowess, holding bows and arrows and repulsing the forces of the enemy.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)