Chapter 70 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 70

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 70.25

ततो बाणमयं वर्ष नीलस्योपर्यपातयत्। गिरौ वर्ष तडिच्चक्रं स गर्जनिव तोयदः।।२८। ततः शरौधैरभिवृष्यमाणो विभिन्नगात्रः कपिसैन्यपालः। नीलो बभूवाथ विसृष्टगात्रो विष्टम्भितस्तेन महाबलेन॥

tato bāṇamayaṃ varṣa nīlasyoparyapātayat| girau varṣa taḍiccakraṃ sa garjaniva toyadaḥ||28| tataḥ śaraudhairabhivṛṣyamāṇo vibhinnagātraḥ kapisainyapālaḥ| nīlo babhūvātha visṛṣṭagātro viṣṭambhitastena mahābalena||

English Meaning

Then even as a mass of roaring clouds poured down showers enwheeled with levin on a mountain, he showered arrows right on Nīla's breast. Threat showered with those shafts, that leader of monkeys Nīla with his person pierced, had his body riven and was stupefied by that exceedingly powerful one.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)