Chapter 23 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 23

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 23.15

तं विजित्य मुहूर्तेन जघ्ने दैत्यांश्चतुःशतम्॥ ततः पाण्डुरमेघाभं कैलासमिव भास्वरम्। वरुणस्यालयं दिव्यमपश्यद्राक्षसाधिपः॥ क्षरन्तीं च पयस्तत्र सुरभिं गामवस्थिताम्। यस्याः पयोभिनिष्पन्दात्क्षीरोदो नाम सागरः॥

taṃ vijitya muhūrtena jaghne daityāṃścatuḥśatam|| tataḥ pāṇḍurameghābhaṃ kailāsamiva bhāsvaram| varuṇasyālayaṃ divyamapaśyadrākṣasādhipaḥ|| kṣarantīṃ ca payastatra surabhiṃ gāmavasthitām| yasyāḥ payobhiniṣpandātkṣīrodo nāma sāgaraḥ||

English Meaning

Having vanquished him, he, in a moment, destroyed four hundred Daityas. And then the lord of Rākṣasas saw the grand abode of Varuņa resembling a mass of white clouds, and effulgent like to Kailāśa itself;—and also saw the milkconserving Surabhi stationed there; from the streams of whose milk was produced the ocean named Ksiroda.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)