Chapter 9 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 9

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 9.38

आसन् याः शम्बरे मायाः सहस्रमसुराधिपे॥ हृदये ते निविष्टास्ता भूयश्चान्याः सहस्त्रशः। तदेव स्थगु यद् दीर्घ रथघोणमिवायतम्॥ मतयः क्षत्रविद्याश्च मायाश्चात्र वसन्ति ते।

āsan yāḥ śambare māyāḥ sahasramasurādhipe|| hṛdaye te niviṣṭāstā bhūyaścānyāḥ sahastraśaḥ| tadeva sthagu yad dīrgha rathaghoṇamivāyatam|| matayaḥ kṣatravidyāśca māyāścātra vasanti te|

English Meaning

In your heart reside all those thousandconjuration's belonging to that lord of the Asuras, Samvara; and besides thousands there are many more. Intelligence and policy and conjuration's reside in your elevated hump resembling the nave of a chariot-wheel.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)