Verse 17·VR 6.40.17

अन्योन्यमापीड्य विलग्नदेहौ | तौ पेतुतुः पालनिखातमध्ये | उत्पेततुर्भूमितलम् स्पृशन्तौ | स्थित्वा मुहूर्तं त्वभिनिःश्वसन्तौ || ६-४०-१७

baahuttamairvaaraNavaaraNaabhai | rnivaarayantau paravaaraNaabhau| chireNa kaalena bhR^ishaM prayuddhau | saMcheraturmaNDalamaargamaashu || 6-40-21

Translation

Crushing one another and their bodies clung together, they both dropped down between the defensive walls and the moat. They would leap up again, seizing each other from the ground, after pausing an instant to regain their breath.

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aapiiDya

crushing

anyonyam

one another

vilagna dehau

their bodies clung together

tau

they both

nipetatauH

dropped down

saala nikhaata madhye

between the defensive walls and the moat

utpetatuH

they would leap up again

bhuumitalam

from the ground

spR^ishantau

seizing each other

sthitvaa

after pausing

muhuurtam

an instant

abhiniH shvasantau

to regain their breath.

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40

On Seeing Ravana, Sugreeva Bounces on Him

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