Chapter 59 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 59

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 59.71

अभिवृष्टः शरौघेण मेघेनेव महाबलः। ह्रस्वं कृत्वा ततो रूपं ध्वजाग्रे निपपात ह।७७॥

abhivṛṣṭaḥ śaraugheṇa megheneva mahābalaḥ| hrasvaṃ kṛtvā tato rūpaṃ dhvajāgre nipapāta ha|77||

English Meaning

Assailed with fearful showers of arrows as with a mass of clouds, that one endowed with eminent strength, decreasing his dimensions, dropped on the top of Ravana's banner.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)