ऋषीणां देवतानां च गन्धर्वाप्सरसां तथा। नागानामथ यक्षाणां राज्ञां च रजनीचर॥ यच्च पापं कृत मोहादवलिप्तेन राक्षस। नूनं ते विगतो दर्पः स्वयंभूवरदानजः॥ यस्य दण्डधरस्तेऽहं दाराहरणकर्शितः। दण्डं धारयमाणस्तु लङ्काद्वारे व्यवस्थितः॥
ṛṣīṇāṃ devatānāṃ ca gandharvāpsarasāṃ tathā| nāgānāmatha yakṣāṇāṃ rājñāṃ ca rajanīcara|| yacca pāpaṃ kṛta mohādavaliptena rākṣasa| nūnaṃ te vigato darpaḥ svayaṃbhūvaradānajaḥ|| yasya daṇḍadharaste'haṃ dārāharaṇakarśitaḥ| daṇḍaṃ dhārayamāṇastu laṅkādvāre vyavasthitaḥ||
English Meaning
You have, O night-ranger, through delusion and pride injured saints and celestials, and Gandharvas and Apsaras, and Serpents, and Yaksas, and crowned heads. But, O Raksasa, your pride begot of the boon received from the Self-create has gone from you, whose destroyer I, afflicted in consequence of my wife having been carried off, wielding the rod, have sat down at the door of Lankā.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)