Chapter 26 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 26

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 26.5

एवमुक्त्वा धनुर्मध्ये बद्ध्वा मुष्टिमरिंदमः। ज्याघोषमकरोत् तीव्र दिशः शब्देन नादयन् ॥ तेन शब्देन विवस्तास्ताटकावनवासिनः। ताटका च सुसंक्रुद्धा तेन शब्देन मोहिता॥

evamuktvā dhanurmadhye baddhvā muṣṭimariṃdamaḥ| jyāghoṣamakarot tīvra diśaḥ śabdena nādayan || tena śabdena vivastāstāṭakāvanavāsinaḥ| tāṭakā ca susaṃkruddhā tena śabdena mohitā||

English Meaning

Having said this, that repressor of foes, with clenched fist, twanged his bow-string, filling the ten cardinal points with the sounds. And at those sounds, the dwellers in Tāțakā's forest were filled with perturbation, and Tātakā also amazed at those sounds, became exceedingly wroth.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)