Chapter 80 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 80

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 80.5

अवृक्षेषु च देशेषु केचिद् वृक्षानरोपयन्। केचित् कुठारैष्टकैश्च दात्रैश्छिन्दन् क्वचित्क्वचित्।७।। अपरे वीरणस्तम्बान् बलिनो बलवत्तराः। विधमन्ति स्म दुर्गाणि स्थलानि च ततस्ततः॥ अपरेऽपूरयन् कूपान् पांसुभिः श्वभ्रमायतम्। निम्नभागांस्तथैवाशु समांश्चक्रुः समन्ततः॥

avṛkṣeṣu ca deśeṣu kecid vṛkṣānaropayan| kecit kuṭhāraiṣṭakaiśca dātraiśchindan kvacitkvacit|7|| apare vīraṇastambān balino balavattarāḥ| vidhamanti sma durgāṇi sthalāni ca tatastataḥ|| apare'pūrayan kūpān pāṃsubhiḥ śvabhramāyatam| nimnabhāgāṃstathaivāśu samāṃścakruḥ samantataḥ||

English Meaning

They set up trees where there were none, and at places they felled trees by means of axes, tankas, and daos, others possessed of greater strength and more powerful, with their hands uprooted masses of Vīrana and here and there levelled a rising ground. And other filled up with dust wells and capacious hollows, and speedily levelled deep places all around.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)