Chapter 20 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 20

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 20.16

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)