Chapter 88 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 88

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 88.49

अभीक्ष्णं निःश्वसन्तौ वै युध्येतां तुमुलौ युधि। शरसंकृत्तसर्वाङ्गौ सर्वतो रुधिरोक्षितौ।। सुदीर्घकालं तौ वीरावन्योन्यं निशितैः शरैः॥

abhīkṣṇaṃ niḥśvasantau vai yudhyetāṃ tumulau yudhi| śarasaṃkṛttasarvāṅgau sarvato rudhirokṣitau|| sudīrghakālaṃ tau vīrāvanyonyaṃ niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ||

English Meaning

And sighing again and again, they faught furiously. And with their persons cut all over, and laved in blood, for a long while the heroes kept cleaving each other with sharpened shafts.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)