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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.16.15

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 16: The Devas beget Rāma’s future allies. Brahmā directs the Devas to beget powerful helpers, their monkey-shaped sons inherit divine qualities and gather around Vālin & Sugrīva

In the sequence: they fight with rocks, trees, claws, and teeth and possess the strength to shake mountains, churn the sea, tear the earth, leap the ocean, and seize clouds

1.16.15

dārayeyuḥ kṣitiṃ padbhyām āplaveyur mahārṇavam
nabhastalaṃ viśeyuś ca gṛhṇīyur api toyadān

They could tear the earth with their feet, leap across the great ocean, enter the vault of the sky, and even seize the clouds.

Words: dārayeyuḥ — they could tear, rend; kṣitiṃ — the earth; padbhyām — with the feet; āplaveyur — they could leap across; mahārṇavam — the great ocean; nabhastalaṃ — the vault of the sky; viśeyuś — they could enter; ca — and; gṛhṇīyur — they could seize; api — even; toyadān — the clouds

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.