Chapter 3 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 3

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 3.22

तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा लङ्का सा कामरूपिणी। भूय एव पुनर्वाक्यं बभाषे परुषाक्षरम् ॥

tasya tad vacanaṃ śrutvā laṅkā sā kāmarūpiṇī| bhūya eva punarvākyaṃ babhāṣe paruṣākṣaram ||

English Meaning

Hearing these words of his, Lankā capable of wearing forms at will, again addressed him in a speech fraught with dissonant letters:

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)