Chapter 26 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 26

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 26.16

योऽसौ शतसहस्राणि सहर्षं परिकर्षति। यस्य बाला बहुव्यामा दीर्घलाफूलमाश्रिताः॥ ताम्राः पीताः सिताः श्वेताः प्रकीर्णा घोरदर्शनाः। अदीनो वानरचण्डः संग्राममभिकाङ्क्षति।। एषैवाशंसते लङ्का स्वेनानीकेन मर्दितुम्॥

yo'sau śatasahasrāṇi saharṣaṃ parikarṣati| yasya bālā bahuvyāmā dīrghalāphūlamāśritāḥ|| tāmrāḥ pītāḥ sitāḥ śvetāḥ prakīrṇā ghoradarśanāḥ| adīno vānaracaṇḍaḥ saṃgrāmamabhikāṅkṣati|| eṣaivāśaṃsate laṅkā svenānīkena marditum||

English Meaning

He that cheerfully draws after him hundreds and thousands of monkeys, and the long grim hairs of whose tail, coppery, yellow, sable and white, are cast about, is the energetic monkey, Canda, eager for encounter. And he hopes to conquer Laňkā by help of his own forces.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)