Aranya Kanda 44.6
Valmiki Ramayanam (IIT Kanpur) · Aranya Kanda 44 · Verse 6
Sanskrit Original
।। शङ्कितन्तु समुद्भ्रान्तमुत्पतन्तमिवाम्बरे। दृश्यमानमदृश्यं च वनोद्देशेषु केषुचित्।।
৷৷ śaṅkitantu samudbhrāntamutpatantamivāmbarē. dṛśyamānamadṛśyaṅ ca vanōddēśēṣu kēṣucit৷৷
Rama, wielder of the bow, saw that splendid animal ahead of him. Holding the bow he saw the deer running away, bewldered into the great forest looking at him again and again. The deer was getting out of the range of his arrow, while it enticed him now and then. Suspecting that he might be caught, the deer was, as though jumping into the sky. Now it came within sight and now out of sight in the huge forest. It looked like the autumnal moon surrounded by clouds. (The clouds muffle the Moon and reveal him now and then).