Sundara Kanda 4.19
Valmiki Ramayanam (IIT Kanpur) · Sundara Kanda 4 · Verse 19
Sanskrit Original
।। नातिगौरान्नातिकृष्णान्नातिकुब्जान्न वामनान्। विरूपान् बहुरूपांश्च सुरूपांश्च सुवर्चसः।
৷৷ nātigaurānnātikṛṣṇānnātikubjānna vāmanān. virūpān bahurūpāṅśca surūpāṅśca suvarcasaḥ.
Going around Lanka, Hanuman witnessed all kinds of demons priests who were performing rituals, ascetics with matted hair, some with shaven heads, and some robed in cowhides. Some were holding fistfuls of darbha grass (as weapons), others held sacrificial tools (as weapons), some had mallets, some hammers and others had staff and spikes. Some looked frightful with a single eye, some with a single ear, some with drooping stomachs and sagging breasts and in distorted forms. Similarly some dwarfs and some wielding iron weapons, their bodies covered with wonderful shields some not very tall or short, not stout or thin, not very dark and not with hideous forms or mutilated bodies. Some had goodlooking countenances, some were seen holding posts and flags and weapons of several kinds.