Canonical Ref: VR 5.8.10
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
निःश्वसन्तं यथा नागं रावणं वानरोत्तमः । आसाद्य परमोद्विग्नः सोऽपासर्पत्सुभीतवत् ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
niḥśvasantaṃ yathā nāgaṃ rāvaṇaṃ vānarottamaḥ | āsādya paramodvignaḥ so'pāsarpatsubhītavat ||
English Scholarly Translation
Respiring like a (hissing) serpent.* And reaching there, Hanumān, waxing wondrous agitated, shrank back, as if in fear. And then arriving at the staircase, the mighty monkey, stationing himself on a dais in the middle of the stairs, gazed at the inebriate, Raksasa, resembling a tiger. 'The commentator, however, interprets: like an elephant. Serpent is, I fancy, a happy rendering of Nāga.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
निःश्वसन्तं
Lemma: निःश्वस्
POS: 2. Ā.
यथा
Lemma: यथा
POS: ind
नागं
Lemma: नाग
POS: m
रावणं
Lemma: रावण
POS: m
वानरोत्तमः
Lemma: वानर
POS: m
वानरोत्तमः
Lemma: उत्तम
POS: adj
आसाद्य
Lemma: आसादय्
POS: 10. Ā.
परमोद्विग्नः
Lemma: परम
POS: adj
परमोद्विग्नः
Lemma: उद्विज्
POS: 6. P.
सो
Lemma: तद्
POS: pron
ऽपासर्पत्
Lemma: अपसृप्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: अपासर्पत्
सुभीतवत्
Lemma: सुभीत
POS: adj
सुभीतवत्
Lemma: वत्
POS: ind
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 5.8.10. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.