यदन्तरं सिंहसृगालयोने यदन्तरं स्यन्दनिकासमुद्रयोः। सुराग्र्यसौवीरकयोर्यदन्तरं तदन्तरं दाशरथेस्तवैव च।।४५ यदन्तरं काञ्चनसीसलोहया र्यदन्तरं चन्दनवारिपङ्कयोः। यदन्तरं हस्तिबिडालयोर्वने तदन्तरं दाशरथेस्तवैव च। यदन्तरं वायसवैनतेययो र्यदन्तरं मद्गुमयूरयोरपि। यदन्तरं हंसकगृध्रयोर्वने तदन्तरं दाशरथेस्तवैव च।।४७। तस्मिन् सहस्राक्षसमप्रभावे रामे स्थिते कार्मुकबाणपाणौ हृतापि तेऽहं न जरां गमिष्ये आज्यं यथा मक्षिकयावगीर्णम्।४८।।
yadantaraṃ siṃhasṛgālayone yadantaraṃ syandanikāsamudrayoḥ| surāgryasauvīrakayoryadantaraṃ tadantaraṃ dāśarathestavaiva ca||45 yadantaraṃ kāñcanasīsalohayā ryadantaraṃ candanavāripaṅkayoḥ| yadantaraṃ hastibiḍālayorvane tadantaraṃ dāśarathestavaiva ca| yadantaraṃ vāyasavainateyayo ryadantaraṃ madgumayūrayorapi| yadantaraṃ haṃsakagṛdhrayorvane tadantaraṃ dāśarathestavaiva ca||47| tasmin sahasrākṣasamaprabhāve rāme sthite kārmukabāṇapāṇau hṛtāpi te'haṃ na jarāṃ gamiṣye ājyaṃ yathā makṣikayāvagīrṇam|48||
English Meaning
Mighty is the difference between Rāma and you, like to that between a lion and a jackal, a sea and a rivulet, nectar and gruel, gold and iron, sandal and mud, an elephant and a cat, a crow and Garuda, a peacock and a madgie (an acquatic bird), or a duck and a vulture. Even If you did steal me, that mighty archer Rāma, gifted with the prowess of the lord celestials, living, surely shall I die, like to a gnat sucking clarified butter.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)