Chapter 26 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 26

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 26.18

तस्य पाण्डुरमाजकुश्छत्रं हेमपरिष्कृतम्॥ शुक्ले च वालव्यजने हेमदण्डे यशस्करे। तथा रत्नानि सर्वाणि सर्वबीजौषधानि च॥ सक्षीराणां च वृक्षाणां प्ररोहान् कुसुमानि च। शुक्लानि चैव वस्त्राणि श्वेतं चैवानुलेपनम्॥ सुगन्धीनि च माल्यानि स्थलजान्यम्बुजानि च। चन्दनानि च दिव्यानि गन्धांश्च विविधान् बहून्॥ अक्षतं जातरूपं च प्रियङ्गुमधुसर्पिषी। दधि चर्म च वैयाघ्रं पराध्यौ चाप्युपानहौ॥ समालम्भनमादाय गोरोचनं मनःशिलाम्। आजग्मुस्तत्र मुदिता वराः कन्याश्च षोडश॥

tasya pāṇḍuramājakuśchatraṃ hemapariṣkṛtam|| śukle ca vālavyajane hemadaṇḍe yaśaskare| tathā ratnāni sarvāṇi sarvabījauṣadhāni ca|| sakṣīrāṇāṃ ca vṛkṣāṇāṃ prarohān kusumāni ca| śuklāni caiva vastrāṇi śvetaṃ caivānulepanam|| sugandhīni ca mālyāni sthalajānyambujāni ca| candanāni ca divyāni gandhāṃśca vividhān bahūn|| akṣataṃ jātarūpaṃ ca priyaṅgumadhusarpiṣī| dadhi carma ca vaiyāghraṃ parādhyau cāpyupānahau|| samālambhanamādāya gorocanaṃ manaḥśilām| ājagmustatra muditā varāḥ kanyāśca ṣoḍaśa||

English Meaning

The monkeys brought for him a coppercoloured golden umbrella, white chowries, a magnificent golden staff, diverse jewels, various seeds and medicating drugs, roots and flowers of glomerous fig trees, white clothes, white sandal paste, fragrant garlands, flowers growing in water and on land, celestial sandal and various scents, fried grain, gold, Pryangu' honey, clarified butter, curd tiger-skin, a pair of excellent sandals, gorocana? and red Arsenic. Carrying all those things there came sixteen maids, highly delighted. 1. A medicinal plant, and perfume, commonly known by the name Pryangu and described in some places as a fragrant seed. 2. A bright yellow pigment prepared from the urine of a cow, or committed in the shape of scibule by the animal, or according to some found in the head of a COW.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)