Chapter 64 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 64

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 64.17

कस्य प्रसादाद् रामं च लक्ष्मणं च महाबलम्। अभिगच्छेम संहृष्टाः सुग्रीवं च वनौकसम्॥ यदि कश्चित् समर्थो वः सागरप्लवने हरिः। स ददात्विह नः शीघ्रं पुण्यामभयदक्षिणाम्॥ अङ्गदस्य वचः श्रुत्वा न कश्चित् किंचिदब्रवीत्। स्तिमितेवाभवत् सर्वा सा तत्र हरिवाहिनी॥

kasya prasādād rāmaṃ ca lakṣmaṇaṃ ca mahābalam| abhigacchema saṃhṛṣṭāḥ sugrīvaṃ ca vanaukasam|| yadi kaścit samartho vaḥ sāgaraplavane hariḥ| sa dadātviha naḥ śīghraṃ puṇyāmabhayadakṣiṇām|| aṅgadasya vacaḥ śrutvā na kaścit kiṃcidabravīt| stimitevābhavat sarvā sā tatra harivāhinī||

English Meaning

By whose favour shall we joyfully meet Rama, and the mighty Laksmana, and that dweller in the woods, Sugrīva? If any monkey among you is competent to bound over the deep, let him at once confer on us Dakșină in the shape of deliverance from fear. Hearing Angada's speech, none said anything, And that host off monkeys wavered.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)