Chapter 62 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 62

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 62.7

मधूच्छिष्टेन केचिच्च जघ्नुरन्योन्यमुत्कटाः। अपरे वृक्षमूलेषु शाखा गृह्य व्यवस्थिताः॥ अत्यर्थं च मदग्लानाः पर्णान्यास्तीर्य शेरते। उन्मत्तवेगा: प्लवगा मधुमत्ताश्च हृष्टवत्॥ क्षिपन्त्यपि तथान्योन्यं स्खलन्ति च तथापरे। केचित् क्ष्वेडान्प्रकुर्वन्ति केचित् कूचन्ति हृष्टवत्॥

madhūcchiṣṭena kecicca jaghnuranyonyamutkaṭāḥ| apare vṛkṣamūleṣu śākhā gṛhya vyavasthitāḥ|| atyarthaṃ ca madaglānāḥ parṇānyāstīrya śerate| unmattavegā: plavagā madhumattāśca hṛṣṭavat|| kṣipantyapi tathānyonyaṃ skhalanti ca tathāpare| kecit kṣveḍānprakurvanti kecit kūcanti hṛṣṭavat||

English Meaning

And some, being exhausted with drinking, spread leaves and laid themselves thereon-and some being drunk and delighted struck others down in mad fury. And some lost their steps. Some roared and some delightedly set up the music of the birds.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)