Chapter 59 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 59

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 59.23

यश्चैव नानाविधघोररॊपैर्व्याघ्रोष्ट्रनागेन्द्रमृगाश्ववक्रैः। भूतैवृतो भाति विवृत्तनेत्रैर्योऽसौ सुराणामपि दर्पहन्ता ॥ यत्रैतदिन्दुप्रतिमं विभातिच्छत्रं सितं सूक्ष्मशलाकमग्र्यम्। अत्रैव रक्षोधिपतिर्महात्मा भूतैर्वृतो रुद्र इवावभाति ॥ असौ किरीटी चलकुण्डलास्यो नगेन्द्रविन्ध्योपमभीमकायः। महेन्द्रवैवस्वतदर्पहन्ता रक्षोधिपः सूर्य इवावभाति ॥

yaścaiva nānāvidhaghoraròpairvyāghroṣṭranāgendramṛgāśvavakraiḥ| bhūtaivṛto bhāti vivṛttanetrairyo'sau surāṇāmapi darpahantā || yatraitadindupratimaṃ vibhāticchatraṃ sitaṃ sūkṣmaśalākamagryam| atraiva rakṣodhipatirmahātmā bhūtairvṛto rudra ivāvabhāti || asau kirīṭī calakuṇḍalāsyo nagendravindhyopamabhīmakāyaḥ| mahendravaivasvatadarpahantā rakṣodhipaḥ sūrya ivāvabhāti ||

English Meaning

That crusher of the hauteur of even the celestials, that surrounded by various spectres of dreadful forms having faces of tigers, or camels, or powerful elephants, or deer, or horses, and with their eyes rolling, where the white umbrella resembling the Moon, shine, graced with slender ribs-the high-souled sovereign of Rākṣasa appear like Rudra himself environed by spectres, the sovereign of the Rākṣasa looked with a diadem, with his countenance graced with pendulous earrings, with a person resembling that monarch of mountains-even Vindhya himself-that humbler of the pride of Indra the Great and Yama, shine like the Sun.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)