Chapter 42 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 42

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 42.23

कुसुमान्यपचिन्वन्ती चचार रुचिरानना। अनर्हा वनवासस्य सा तं रत्नमयं मृगम्॥ मुक्तामणिविचित्राङ्गं ददर्श परमाङ्गना।

kusumānyapacinvantī cacāra rucirānanā| anarhā vanavāsasya sā taṃ ratnamayaṃ mṛgam|| muktāmaṇivicitrāṅgaṃ dadarśa paramāṅganā|

English Meaning

That best of women, ever inured to living in the forest and possessed of a graceful countenance, walking and plucking flowers, saw that jewelled deer, having its body diversified with pearls and diamonds,

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)