Chapter 43 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 43

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 43.12

ततो वातात्मजः क्रुद्धो भीमरूपं समास्थितः॥ प्रसादस्य महांस्तस्य स्तम्भं हेमपरिष्कृतम्। उत्पाटयित्वा वेगेन हनूमान्मारुतात्मजः॥ ततस्तं भ्रामयामास शतधारं महाबलः। तत्र चाग्निः समभवत्प्रासादश्चाप्यदह्यत ॥

tato vātātmajaḥ kruddho bhīmarūpaṃ samāsthitaḥ|| prasādasya mahāṃstasya stambhaṃ hemapariṣkṛtam| utpāṭayitvā vegena hanūmānmārutātmajaḥ|| tatastaṃ bhrāmayāmāsa śatadhāraṃ mahābalaḥ| tatra cāgniḥ samabhavatprāsādaścāpyadahyata ||

English Meaning

Thereat, the Wind-god's son, the mighty Hanumān, (Mārutatmaja-son to the Wind-god, left out on the score of redundency) waxing enraged, violently uprooting a huge pillar of the edifice, plated with gold, and having an hundred borders, began to whirl it (in the air). (The reader is powerfully reminded of a like feat of Manoah's son-'the Herculean Samson') And the fire generated there thus, burnt down the entire edifice.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)