Chapter 28 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 28

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 28.5

यं तु पश्यसि तिष्ठन्तं प्रभिन्नमिव कुञ्जरम्। यो बलात्क्षोभयेत्क्रुद्धः समुद्रमपि वानरः॥ एषोऽभिगन्ता लङ्कायां वैदेह्यास्तव च प्रभो। एनं पश्य पुरा दृष्टं वानरं पुनरागतम्।९।। ज्येष्ठः केसरिणः पुत्रो वातात्मज इति श्रुतः। हनूमानिति विख्यातो लङ्घितो येन सागरः॥

yaṃ tu paśyasi tiṣṭhantaṃ prabhinnamiva kuñjaram| yo balātkṣobhayetkruddhaḥ samudramapi vānaraḥ|| eṣo'bhigantā laṅkāyāṃ vaidehyāstava ca prabho| enaṃ paśya purā dṛṣṭaṃ vānaraṃ punarāgatam|9|| jyeṣṭhaḥ kesariṇaḥ putro vātātmaja iti śrutaḥ| hanūmāniti vikhyāto laṅghito yena sāgaraḥ||

English Meaning

He whom you seseestaying like a mad elephant, the monkey who, being enraged, can by his strength agitate the deep itself, who, searching for Vaidehi, had presented himself before you, lord, behold this monkey come again!-whom you had seen before!*—is the eldest son of Kacari, known as the offspring of the Wind-god-celebrated as Hanumān, who had bounded over the deep. *This dislocation occurs in the original. These descriptions generally are hardly amenable to a sound syntax.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)