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)