Yuddha Kanda 7.22
Valmiki Ramayanam (IIT Kanpur) · Yuddha Kanda 7 · Verse 22
Sanskrit Original
शक्तितोमरमीनंचविनिकीर्णान्त्रशैवलम् । गजकछपसम्बाधमश्वमण्डूकसंकुलम् ।।
śaktitōmaramīnaṅcavinikīrṇāntraśaivalam . gajakachapasambādhamaśvamaṇḍūkasaṅkulam ।।
"Approaching that huge ocean of army of celestials, whose fish are lanes and spheres, whose guts thrown asunder as duck-weeds, whose turtles are the elephants, whose frogs are the teeming horses, infested with alligators in the form of (eleven) Rudras (gods of destruction) and (twelve) Adityas (sons of Aditi), with huge serpents in the form of (forty nine) Maruts (wind gods) and (eight) Vasus, having chariots horses and elephants for its volume of waters and the sandy elephants for its volume of waters and the sandy banks its infantry, Devendra (Lord of celestials) was captured by him and was impelled to come to Lanka (as a detenu).