Chapter 15 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 15

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 15.18

राक्षसो रावणो मूल् वीर्योद्रेकेण बाधते। ऋषयश्च ततस्तेन गन्धर्वाप्सरसस्तथा॥ क्रीडन्तो नन्दनवने रौद्रेण विनिपातिताः।

rākṣaso rāvaṇo mūl vīryodrekeṇa bādhate| ṛṣayaśca tatastena gandharvāpsarasastathā|| krīḍanto nandanavane raudreṇa vinipātitāḥ|

English Meaning

And by him bereft of the sense of right and wrong, have saints and Gandharvas and Apsaras sporting in the groves of Nandana, been wantonly slain.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)