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)