सोऽहं वनगतं रामं परिभूय महाबलम्। तापसोऽयमिति ज्ञात्वा पूर्ववैरमनुस्मरन्॥ अभ्यधावं सुसंक्रुद्धस्तीक्ष्णशृङ्गो मृगाकृतिः। जिघांसुरकृतप्रज्ञस्तं प्रहारमनुस्मरन्॥
so'haṃ vanagataṃ rāmaṃ paribhūya mahābalam| tāpaso'yamiti jñātvā pūrvavairamanusmaran|| abhyadhāvaṃ susaṃkruddhastīkṣṇaśṛṅgo mṛgākṛtiḥ| jighāṃsurakṛtaprajñastaṃ prahāramanusmaran||
English Meaning
Remembering his former enmity and aggrandisement, I, being extremely wrathful, in my deer shape and with my sharpened horns, darted towards him with a view to kill him, considering through my ignorance the effulgent Rāma as none other but an ascetic living in the forest.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)