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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.24.11

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 24: Story of Tāṭakā: Birth, marriage and Agastya’s curse. Brahmā grants Suketu a powerful daughter, Tāṭakā marries Sunda and bears Mārīca, their attack on Agastya brings his transforming curses

In the sequence: after Sunda was slain, Tāṭakā and Mārīca sought to attack Agastya → he cursed Mārīca to become a rākṣasa and Tāṭakā to lose her beauty and become a hideous puruṣādī (man-eater)

1.24.11

puruṣādī mahāyakṣī virūpā vikṛtānanā
idaṃ rūpam apahāya dāruṇaṃ rūpam astu te

“Man-eating great yakṣī, misshapen and hideous of face — casting off this (present) form, let a dreadful form be yours!”

Words: puruṣādī — man-eating; mahāyakṣī — great yakṣī; virūpā — misshapen, deformed; vikṛtānanā — of distorted face; idaṃ — this; rūpam — form; apahāya — having cast off; dāruṇaṃ — dreadful; rūpam — form; astu — let it be; te — yours

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.