Chapter 1 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 1

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 1.44

तिमिनक्रझषा: कूर्मा दृश्यन्ते विवृतास्तदा। वस्त्रापकर्षणेनेव शरीराणि शरीरिणाम्॥

timinakrajhaṣā: kūrmā dṛśyante vivṛtāstadā| vastrāpakarṣaṇeneva śarīrāṇi śarīriṇām||

English Meaning

Then whales and alligators and fishes and tortoises appeared plainly visible, like the persons of individuals, when the cloth has been taken off then.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)