Chapter 99 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 99

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 99.35

आसुरेण समाविष्टः सोऽस्त्रेण रघुपुङ्गवः। ससर्जास्त्रं महोत्साहं पावकं पावकोपमः।४६।। अग्निदीप्तमुखान्बाणांस्तत्र सूर्यमुखानपि। चन्द्रार्धचन्द्रवक्रांश्च धूमकेतुमुखानपि।। ग्रहनक्षत्रवर्णाश्च महोल्कामुखसंस्थितान्॥ विद्युज्जिह्वोपमांश्चापि ससर्ज विविधाञ्छरान्।

āsureṇa samāviṣṭaḥ so'streṇa raghupuṅgavaḥ| sasarjāstraṃ mahotsāhaṃ pāvakaṃ pāvakopamaḥ|46|| agnidīptamukhānbāṇāṃstatra sūryamukhānapi| candrārdhacandravakrāṃśca dhūmaketumukhānapi|| grahanakṣatravarṇāśca maholkāmukhasaṃsthitān|| vidyujjihvopamāṃścāpi sasarja vividhāñcharān|

English Meaning

Covered with that Asura weapon that foremost of the Raghus, himself resembling fire, discharged an exceedingly vigorous weapon informed with fire; and shot various shafts having faces filled with live flames, and faces like to suns, and hued like to planets and stars, and furnished with faces resembling mighty meteors or resembling tongues of lightning.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)