Chapter 8 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 8

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 8.5

मनः समाधाय तु शीघ्रगामिनं. दुरासदं मारुततुल्यगामिनम्। महात्मनां पुण्यकृतां महर्द्धिनां यशस्विनामग्र्यमुदामिवालयम्॥

manaḥ samādhāya tu śīghragāminaṃ. durāsadaṃ mārutatulyagāminam| mahātmanāṃ puṇyakṛtāṃ maharddhināṃ yaśasvināmagryamudāmivālayam||

English Meaning

Fleet-coursing in consonance with the wish of its master; incapable of being approached; * equal to the wind in celerity; the source of happiness to illustrious, high-souled, and pious ones—possessors of 'riches fineless' and high rapture; *By the impious. Another reading is duravaram—incapable of being withstood by the enemy. 'Vide Othello.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)