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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.24.9

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)

1.24.9

sunde tu nihate rāma agastyam ṛṣisattamam
tāṭakā saha putreṇa pradharṣayitum icchati

And when Sunda was slain, O Rāma, Tāṭakā, together with her son, sought to assail Agastya, the best of seers.

Words: sunde — Sunda (loc. abs.); tu — and; nihate — slain (loc. abs.); rāma — O Rāma; agastyam — Agastya; ṛṣisattamam — the best of seers; tāṭakā — Tāṭakā; saha — together with; putreṇa — her son; pradharṣayitum — to assail, attack; icchati — wishes, seeks

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.