Chapter 59 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 59

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 59.40

तेषां प्रहारान्स चकार मोघान् राक्षोधिपो बाणशतैः शिताग्रैः। तान्वानरेन्द्रानापि बानजालैर्बिभेद जाम्बॊनदचित्रपुङ्खैः॥ ते वानरेन्द्रारित्रदशारिबाणैर्भिन्ना निपेतुर्भुवि भीमकायाः।। ततस्तु तद्वानरसैन्यमुग्रं प्रच्छादयामास स बाणजालैः। ४४॥

teṣāṃ prahārānsa cakāra moghān rākṣodhipo bāṇaśataiḥ śitāgraiḥ| tānvānarendrānāpi bānajālairbibheda jāmbònadacitrapuṅkhaiḥ|| te vānarendrāritradaśāribāṇairbhinnā nipeturbhuvi bhīmakāyāḥ|| tatastu tadvānarasainyamugraṃ pracchādayāmāsa sa bāṇajālaiḥ| 44||

English Meaning

The lord of Rākşasas with hundreds of shafts having sharpened heads, rendered their strokes fruitless. And then he rived those foremost of monkeys with showers of arrows having variegated golden knobs, and covered those fierce monkey-ranks with networks of arrows.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)