Chapter 17 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 17

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 17.27

तैरियं पृथिवी शूरैः सपर्वतवनार्णवा। कीर्णा विविधसंस्थानैर्नानाव्यञ्जनलक्षणैः॥ तैर्मेघवृन्दाचलकूटसंनिभैर्महाबलैर्वानरयूथपाधिपैः। बभूव भूर्भीमशरीररूपैः समावृता रामसहायहेतोः॥

tairiyaṃ pṛthivī śūraiḥ saparvatavanārṇavā| kīrṇā vividhasaṃsthānairnānāvyañjanalakṣaṇaiḥ|| tairmeghavṛndācalakūṭasaṃnibhairmahābalairvānarayūthapādhipaiḥ| babhūva bhūrbhīmaśarīrarūpaiḥ samāvṛtā rāmasahāyahetoḥ||

English Meaning

This earth, furnished with mountains, and forests, and oceans, began to teem with those heroic lords of leaders of monkey-herds, inhabiting different places, bearing characteristic marks, resembling masses of clouds, mountain-peaks, possessed of mighty strength, and of terrible bodies and visages, in order that they might assist Rāma. or

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)