नीलानिव महामेघांस्तिष्ठतो यांस्तु पश्यसि ॥ असिताञ्जनसंकाशान्युद्धे सत्यपराक्रमान्। असंख्येयाननिर्देश्यान्परं पारमिवोदधेः॥ पर्वतेषु च ये केचिद्विषयेषु नदीषु च। एते त्वामभिवर्तन्ते राजनृक्षाः सुदारुणाः॥ एषां मध्ये स्थितो राजा भीमाक्षो भीमदर्शनः। पर्जन्य इव जीमूतैः समन्तात्परिवारितः॥ ऋक्षवन्तं गिरिश्रेष्ठमध्यास्ते नर्मदां पिबन्।
nīlāniva mahāmeghāṃstiṣṭhato yāṃstu paśyasi || asitāñjanasaṃkāśānyuddhe satyaparākramān| asaṃkhyeyānanirdeśyānparaṃ pāramivodadheḥ|| parvateṣu ca ye kecidviṣayeṣu nadīṣu ca| ete tvāmabhivartante rājanṛkṣāḥ sudāruṇāḥ|| eṣāṃ madhye sthito rājā bhīmākṣo bhīmadarśanaḥ| parjanya iva jīmūtaiḥ samantātparivāritaḥ|| ṛkṣavantaṃ giriśreṣṭhamadhyāste narmadāṃ piban|
English Meaning
These whom you behold present, resembling mighty masses of sable clouds, like to black collyrium, of genuine prowess, countless and incapable of enumeration, dwelling in mountains, provinces, and rivers, terrible bears-approach you, O king. In their amidst is their king, grimeyed and of fierce appearance, like to Parjanya* encompassed by clouds, who dwell in that best of mountains, Rikkhavān, drinking of the Narmadā. *Indra
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)