Chapter 117 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 117

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 117.13

प्रभवं निधनं चापि नो विदुः को भवानिति। दृश्यसे सर्वभूतेषु गोषु च ब्राह्मणेषु च॥ दिक्षु सर्वासु गगने पर्वतेषु नदीषु च। सहस्रचरणः श्रीमाञ्शतशीर्षः सहस्रदृक् ॥

prabhavaṃ nidhanaṃ cāpi no viduḥ ko bhavāniti| dṛśyase sarvabhūteṣu goṣu ca brāhmaṇeṣu ca|| dikṣu sarvāsu gagane parvateṣu nadīṣu ca| sahasracaraṇaḥ śrīmāñśataśīrṣaḥ sahasradṛk ||

English Meaning

No one is conversant with your birth and destruction-you are manifest in all creaturescows and Brahmins-an all quarters, in the sky, in the mountain, and in the river. You are gifted with thousand legs, thousand heads and thousand eyes.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)