Chapter 23 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 23

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 23.106

रावणोऽपि वरं लब्वा पुनरेवागमत्तथा। केनचित्त्वथ कालेन रावणो लोकरावणः॥ पश्चिमार्णवमागच्छत्सचिवैः सह राक्षसः। द्वीपस्थो दृश्यते तत्र पुरुषः पावकप्रभः॥ महाजाम्बूनदप्रख्य एक एव व्यवस्थितः। दृश्यते भीषणाकारो युगान्तानलसंनिभः॥

rāvaṇo'pi varaṃ labvā punarevāgamattathā| kenacittvatha kālena rāvaṇo lokarāvaṇaḥ|| paścimārṇavamāgacchatsacivaiḥ saha rākṣasaḥ| dvīpastho dṛśyate tatra puruṣaḥ pāvakaprabhaḥ|| mahājāmbūnadaprakhya eka eva vyavasthitaḥ| dṛśyate bhīṣaṇākāro yugāntānalasaṃnibhaḥ||

English Meaning

And having obtained the boon Råvaņa too came back. After a few days that Raksasa Ravana, the dread of all people, arrived at the banks of the western Ocean with his councillors. And on the island a person was seen bright as fire under the name of Mahājāmbūnada, seated there alone. He had a dreadful figure and was like to the fire at dissolution.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)