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.
निःश्वसन्तं यथा नागं रावणं वानरोत्तमः। आसाद्य परमोद्विग्नः सोपासर्पत् सुभीतवत्॥ अथारोहणमासाद्य वेदिकान्तरमाश्रितः। क्षीबं राक्षसशार्दूलं प्रेक्षते स्म महाकपिः॥