Chapter 33 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 33

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 33.22

इत्येवं विविधा वाचो नानाजनसमीरिताः। शुश्राव राघवः श्रुत्वा न विचक्रेऽस्य मानसम्॥ स तु वेश्म पुनर्मातुः कैलासशिखरप्रभम्। अभिचक्राम धर्मात्मा मत्तमातङ्गविक्रमः॥

ityevaṃ vividhā vāco nānājanasamīritāḥ| śuśrāva rāghavaḥ śrutvā na vicakre'sya mānasam|| sa tu veśma punarmātuḥ kailāsaśikharaprabham| abhicakrāma dharmātmā mattamātaṅgavikramaḥ||

English Meaning

Rāghava heard various words uttered thus by the populace; and having heard them he did not suffer his mind to be agitated. And that righteous one of the prowess of a mad elephant, form a distance began to make for the residence of his father resembiing in brightness a summit of the Kailasa mountain.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)