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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.19

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 39: Story of Sagara: Kapila’s anger and the sons’ destruction. The sons pass the elephants supporting the earth and find the horse beside Kapila, they accuse him of theft and his “huṃ” reduces them to ashes

In the sequence: continuing through the quarters, they similarly honor Mahāpadma in the south, Saumanasa in the west, and the snow-white Bhadra in the north

1.39.19

paścimāyām api diśi mahāntam acalopamam
diśāgajaṃ saumanasaṃ dadṛśus te mahābalāḥ

In the western quarter too, those mighty ones beheld the great quarter-elephant Saumanasa, resembling a mountain.

Words: paścimāyām — in the western; api — also; diśi — quarter (loc.); mahāntam — great, huge; acalopamam — resembling a mountain; diśāgajaṃ — quarter-elephant; saumanasaṃ — Saumanasa; dadṛśus — beheld; te — they; mahābalāḥ — the mighty ones

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.