Chapter 65 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 65

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 65.47

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)