Chapter 25 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 25

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 25.20

सा हृता मधुना राजनराक्षसेन बलीयसा। यज्ञप्रवृत्ते पुत्रे तु मयि चान्तर्जलोषिते॥ कुम्भकर्णो महाराज निद्रामनुभवत्यथ। निहत्य राक्षसश्रेष्ठानमात्यानिह संमतान्॥ धर्षयित्वा हृता राजनगुप्ताप्यन्तःपुरे तव।

sā hṛtā madhunā rājanarākṣasena balīyasā| yajñapravṛtte putre tu mayi cāntarjaloṣite|| kumbhakarṇo mahārāja nidrāmanubhavatyatha| nihatya rākṣasaśreṣṭhānamātyāniha saṃmatān|| dharṣayitvā hṛtā rājanaguptāpyantaḥpure tava|

English Meaning

Your son being engaged in the sacrifice and myself being under waters she was stolen away, Oking, by the powerful Rākşasa Madhu. Kumbhakarma, ogreat king, was then asleep. Having slain all the powerful Rākşasas and your councillors, he had stolen her away, O king, who was in your inner apartments.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)