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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.23.29

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 23: Story of Tāṭakā’s forest: Indra’s cleansing and the ruined country. The Sarayū’s origin and confluence are explained, Indra’s cleansing gives Malada & Karūṣa their names and Tāṭakā’s devastation makes the region impassable

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra commands Rāma to kill her and restore safety to land that no one dares enter.

1.23.29

na hi kaś cid imaṃ deśaṃ śakroty āgantum īdṛśam
yakṣiṇyā ghorayā rāma utsāditam asahyayā

For no one is able to come to such a region, laid desolate by the terrible, unbearable yakṣī, O Rāma.

Words: na — not; hi — for; kaś — anyone; cid — at all (indef.); imaṃ — this; deśaṃ — region; śakroty — is able; āgantum — to come to; īdṛśam — such; yakṣiṇyā — by the yakṣī; ghorayā — terrible; rāma — O Rāma; utsāditam — laid desolate, destroyed; asahyayā — unbearable, insufferable

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.