देवदानवगन्धर्वा यक्षाः पतगपन्नगाः। न शक्ता रावणं सोढुं किं पुनर्मानवा युधि ॥
devadānavagandharvā yakṣāḥ patagapannagāḥ| na śaktā rāvaṇaṃ soḍhuṃ kiṃ punarmānavā yudhi ||
English Meaning
Even the celestials and the Dānavas and the Gandharvas and the Birds and the Snakes are incapable of bearing Rāvana in battle, what then is man?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)