Chapter 44 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 44

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 44.9

तत्तस्य रक्तं रक्तेन रञ्जितं शुशुभे मुखम्। यथाकाशे महापद्मं सिक्तं काञ्चनबिन्दुभिः॥ चुकोप बाणाभिहतो राक्षसस्य महाकपिः। ततः पार्श्वेऽतिविपुलां ददर्श महतीं शिलाम्॥ तरसा तां समुत्पाट्य चिक्षेप जववद् बली।

tattasya raktaṃ raktena rañjitaṃ śuśubhe mukham| yathākāśe mahāpadmaṃ siktaṃ kāñcanabindubhiḥ|| cukopa bāṇābhihato rākṣasasya mahākapiḥ| tataḥ pārśve'tivipulāṃ dadarśa mahatīṃ śilām|| tarasā tāṃ samutpāṭya cikṣepa javavad balī|

English Meaning

And his naturally red countenance being painted with blood, looked lovely like a majestic red lotus in the sky, washed with the honey of the red Asoka. Wounded by the shafts, the redoubted grew enraged. And he espied a huge and gigantic crag beside him. Thereat, at once uprooting it, that one endowed with celerity and strength hurled it (at his foe).

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)