गेयात्पुष्पसमृद्ध्या च शैत्याद्वायोगिरेर्गुणात्। प्रवृत्तायां रजन्यां च चन्द्रस्योदयनेन च॥ रावणः स महावीर्यः कामस्य वशमागतः। विनिःश्वस्य विनिःश्वस्य शशिनं समवैक्षत॥
geyātpuṣpasamṛddhyā ca śaityādvāyogirerguṇāt| pravṛttāyāṃ rajanyāṃ ca candrasyodayanena ca|| rāvaṇaḥ sa mahāvīryaḥ kāmasya vaśamāgataḥ| viniḥśvasya viniḥśvasya śaśinaṃ samavaikṣata||
English Meaning
Being possessed by desire through songs, richness of flowers, coldness of air, beauty of the hills, and the rising of the moon is night, the highly powerful Rāvana espied again and again the moon with heavy sighs.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)