Chapter 1 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 1

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 1.122

(चकार सुरसा वक्त्रं चत्वारिंशत् तथोच्छ्रितम्। बभूव हनुमान् वीरः पञ्चाशद् योजनोच्छ्रितः। चकार सुरसा वक्त्रं षष्टिं योजनमुच्छ्रितम्।। तदैव हनुमान् वीरः सप्ततिं योजनोच्छ्रितः। चकार सुरसा वक्त्रमशीति योजनोच्छ्रितम्।। हनूमाननलप्रख्यो नवतिं योजनोच्छ्रितः। चकार सुरसा वक्त्रं शतयोजनमायतम्।।)

(cakāra surasā vaktraṃ catvāriṃśat tathocchritam| babhūva hanumān vīraḥ pañcāśad yojanocchritaḥ| cakāra surasā vaktraṃ ṣaṣṭiṃ yojanamucchritam|| tadaiva hanumān vīraḥ saptatiṃ yojanocchritaḥ| cakāra surasā vaktramaśīti yojanocchritam|| hanūmānanalaprakhyo navatiṃ yojanocchritaḥ| cakāra surasā vaktraṃ śatayojanamāyatam||)

English Meaning

Threat, Surasă, extended her mouth forty yojanas, and thereupon the heroic Hanuman attained the altitude of fifty yojanas. Surasā enlarged her mouth sixty yojanas; and the heroic Hanumān anon heightened himself seventy yojanas. Şurasā widened her mouth eighty yoyanas; and Hanumān like to Fire raised himself ninety yojanas. And Surasā enlarged her mouth an hundred yojanas.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)