Chapter 59 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 59

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 59.47

स रावणं वारणहस्तबाहुं ददर्श भीमोद्यतदीप्तचापम्। प्रच्छादयन्तं शरवृष्टिजालैस्तान्वानरान्भिनविकीर्णदेहान्। ५१।।

sa rāvaṇaṃ vāraṇahastabāhuṃ dadarśa bhīmodyatadīptacāpam| pracchādayantaṃ śaravṛṣṭijālaistānvānarānbhinavikīrṇadehān| 51||

English Meaning

And (going to the field), he found Ravana, endowed with arms resembling the trunks of elephants, wielding his dreadful and flaming bow, and covering with showers of arrows those monkeys, whose bodies had been swarming with shafts.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)