Chapter 36 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 36

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 36.11

कुशली यदि काकुत्स्थः किं न सागरमेखलाम्। मही दहति कोपेन युगान्ताग्निरिवोत्थितः॥

kuśalī yadi kākutsthaḥ kiṃ na sāgaramekhalām| mahī dahati kopena yugāntāgnirivotthitaḥ||

English Meaning

And if Kākutstha lives untouched by ill, then why does he not burn the earth, encircled by the ocean with his ire like to the fire of dissolution?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)