Chapter 48 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 48

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 48.21

तस्मिंस्तत: संयति जातहर्षे रणाय निर्गच्छति बाणपाणौ। मूंगाश्च रौद्रा बहुधा विनेदुः॥

tasmiṃstata: saṃyati jātaharṣe raṇāya nirgacchati bāṇapāṇau| mūṃgāśca raudrā bahudhā vineduḥ||

English Meaning

And as he issued out for battle, greatly delighted, with arrows in his hands, all the quar'ers becai.e dark, and jackals began to set up terrible cries.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)