Chapter 86 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 86

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 86.20

जटाधरौ तौ दुमचीरवाससौ महाबलौ कुञ्जरयूथपोपमौ। वरेषुधीचापधरौ परंतपौ व्यपेक्षमाणौ सह सीतया गतौ॥

jaṭādharau tau dumacīravāsasau mahābalau kuñjarayūthapopamau| vareṣudhīcāpadharau paraṃtapau vyapekṣamāṇau saha sītayā gatau||

English Meaning

Wearing matted locks and clad in barks of trees, those persons possessed of mighty strength, like to leaders of elephant-herds, equipped with excellent arrows and quivers and bows, those repressors of foes, expecting (their return form exile), departed with Sītā.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)