ते तस्य घोरं निनदं निशम्य यथा निनादं दिवि वारिदस्य। पेतुर्धरण्यां बहवः प्लवंगा निकृत्तमूला इव शालवृक्षाः॥
te tasya ghoraṃ ninadaṃ niśamya yathā ninādaṃ divi vāridasya| peturdharaṇyāṃ bahavaḥ plavaṃgā nikṛttamūlā iva śālavṛkṣāḥ||
English Meaning
Hearing those terrible shouts like to the roaring of clouds in the welkin, innumerable monkeys dropped to the earth even as sāla trees that have their roots severed.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)