Chapter 1 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 1

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 1.8

स चचालाचलश्चाशु मुहूर्तं कपिपीडतः। तरूणां पुष्पिताग्राणां सर्वं पुष्पमशातयत्॥ तेन पादपमुक्तेन पुष्पौघेण सुगन्धिना। सर्वतः संवृतः शैलो बभौ पुष्पमयो यथा॥ तेन चोत्तमवीर्येण पीड्यमानः स पर्वतः। सलिलं सम्प्रसुस्राव मदमत्त इव द्विपः॥ पीड्यमानस्तु बलिना महेन्द्रस्तेन पर्वतः। रीतीनिवर्तयामास काञ्चनाञ्जनराजतीः॥

sa cacālācalaścāśu muhūrtaṃ kapipīḍataḥ| tarūṇāṃ puṣpitāgrāṇāṃ sarvaṃ puṣpamaśātayat|| tena pādapamuktena puṣpaugheṇa sugandhinā| sarvataḥ saṃvṛtaḥ śailo babhau puṣpamayo yathā|| tena cottamavīryeṇa pīḍyamānaḥ sa parvataḥ| salilaṃ samprasusrāva madamatta iva dvipaḥ|| pīḍyamānastu balinā mahendrastena parvataḥ| rītīnivartayāmāsa kāñcanāñjanarājatīḥ||

English Meaning

The hill at once shook and flowers began to drop down from the trees. Having discharged that fragrant flowers from trees covered all the sides of the mountain which appeared as though it were all flowers. Hanumān began to press the mountain more and more, and it began to spurt forth water like an elephant shedding its temporal sweat, and the golden, silvery and collyrium hues of the different minerals were all destroyed by that torrent of water.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)