वानरोऽयमिति ज्ञात्वा नहि शुद्ध्यति मे मनः। नैवाहं तं कपिं मन्ये यथेयं प्रस्तुता कथा॥ भवेदिन्द्रेण वा सृष्टमस्मदर्थं तपोबलात्। सनागयक्षगन्धर्वदेवासुरमहर्षयः॥ युष्माभिः प्रहितैः सर्वैर्मया सह विनिर्जिताः। तैरवश्यं विधातव्यं व्यलीकं किंचिदेव नः॥
vānaro'yamiti jñātvā nahi śuddhyati me manaḥ| naivāhaṃ taṃ kapiṃ manye yatheyaṃ prastutā kathā|| bhavedindreṇa vā sṛṣṭamasmadarthaṃ tapobalāt| sanāgayakṣagandharvadevāsuramaharṣayaḥ|| yuṣmābhiḥ prahitaiḥ sarvairmayā saha vinirjitāḥ| tairavaśyaṃ vidhātavyaṃ vyalīkaṃ kiṃcideva naḥ||
English Meaning
My mind is not satisfied that he is a monkey. He may have been brought into being by Indra, through ascetic might, for injuring us. Backed by you, I have defeated (deities), and Nāgas, and Yaksas, and Gandharvas, and Asuras, and Maharsis. And, for certain, they have herein tried to do us some wrong.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)