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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.25.7
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 25: Rāma kills Tāṭakā. Rāma’s bowstring draws her attack, he kills her with an arrow to the breast and the Devas ask Viśvāmitra to reward him with divine weapons
In the sequence: he grips the middle of his bow firmly in his fist and makes the bowstring twang fiercely, filling every direction with sound → the forest creatures are terrified → bewildered and enraged by the sound, Tāṭakā rushes toward its source
1.25.7
tena śabdena vitrastās tāṭakā vanavāsinaḥ
tāṭakā ca susaṃkruddhā tena śabdena mohitā
By that sound the dwellers of Tāṭakā's forest were terrified; and Tāṭakā herself, greatly enraged, was bewildered by that sound.
Words: tena — by that; śabdena — by the sound; vitrastās — terrified; tāṭakā — of Tāṭakā's (forest); vanavāsinaḥ — the forest-dwellers; tāṭakā — Tāṭakā; ca — and; susaṃkruddhā — greatly enraged; tena — by that; śabdena — by the sound; mohitā — bewildered, confounded
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.