तस्मिन्नेव ततः काले राजपुत्री त्वनिन्दिता। रूपयौवनसम्पन्नं भूषणोत्तमभूषितम्॥ ततो दृष्ट्वैव वैदेही रावणं राक्षसाधिपम्। प्रावेपत वरारोहा प्रावते कदली यथा॥
tasminneva tataḥ kāle rājaputrī tvaninditā| rūpayauvanasampannaṃ bhūṣaṇottamabhūṣitam|| tato dṛṣṭvaiva vaidehī rāvaṇaṃ rākṣasādhipam| prāvepata varārohā prāvate kadalī yathā||
English Meaning
Thereupon beholding Răvaņa-the lord of Rākṣasas, gifted with youth and beauty and adorned with an excellent dress, that excellent and blameless daughter of a king, Vaidehī, trembled like to a plantain tree shaken by the wind.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)