Chapter 8 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 8

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 8.1

हन्यमाने बले तस्मिन्पद्मनाभेन पृष्ठतः। माल्यवान्संनिवृत्तोऽथ वेलामेत्य इवार्णवः॥

hanyamāne bale tasminpadmanābhena pṛṣṭhataḥ| mālyavānsaṃnivṛtto'tha velāmetya ivārṇavaḥ||

English Meaning

On that host being sore pressed at its back by Padmanabha,* Mālyavăn turned back even as the ocean does on meeting with its shore. *Lit. the lotus-naveled-a name of Visnu.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)