 This is one of the very charming passages from the fifth book of the Ramayana, the book called the Sundara, or the beautiful book. And it describes the monkey Hanuman, the famous monkey god Hanuman, as he watches the moon rise over the demon capital of Lanka, where he has been sent to search for the abducted princess Sita. And this is composed in what is called an upajati meter in Sanskrit. And it goes something like this, right? Tata samadhyangatamanshamantam chotsnavitanam ahadudvamantam tadarshadimandivibhanumantam ko shtevrishamattam evabramantam lokasya papani vinashayantam ahadudvamahadimchapisamedayantam bhutanisarvani viraja yantam tadarshashitamshumatabhyantam humsoyata rajatapanjarastah simhoyatamandarakandarastah viroyatagarvitakunjarastah chandropibhabrajatathambarastah So this is our translation of those particular verses. Then the wise monkey saw the brilliant, many-rayed moon in the middle of the sky, spreading around at a great canopy of brilliance. It looked like a lusty bull roaming in its pen. And he watched as the cool-ray moon rose, ending the sorrows of all the world, causing the sea to rise and illuminating all beings. Like a hamsa in a silver cage or a lion in a cave on Mount Mandara, like a hero mounted on a haughty elephant, so did the moon shine forth in the sky. Rising like a sharp-horned bull, like a great white mountain with its lofty peak, like an elephant whose tusks are bound with gold, the moon shone forth, its form fully revealed.