Chapter 38 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 38

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 38.33

आनृशंस्यं परो धर्मस्त्वत्त एव मया श्रुतम्। जानामि त्वां महावीर्य महोत्साहं महाबलम्॥ । अपारवारमक्षोभ्यं गाम्भीर्यात् सागरोपमम्। भर्तारं ससमुद्राया धरण्या वासवोपमम्॥

ānṛśaṃsyaṃ paro dharmastvatta eva mayā śrutam| jānāmi tvāṃ mahāvīrya mahotsāhaṃ mahābalam|| | apāravāramakṣobhyaṃ gāmbhīryāt sāgaropamam| bhartāraṃ sasamudrāyā dharaṇyā vāsavopamam||

English Meaning

That kindness in a prime virtue I have heard even from you; and I know that you are exceedingly energetic and possessed of great strength an high courage, unfettered by considerations of time and space, incapable of being agitated, you in gravity resemblest the ocean, and like to that lord of the earth furnished with seas-Vasava.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)