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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.28.13

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 28: Story of Siddhāśrama: Vāmana’s three strides. Viśvāmitra recounts Vāmana’s three strides and the restoration of Indra’s realm, then begins his observance with the brothers as guards

In the sequence: he tells Rāma to regard it as his own home too

1.28.13

etam āśramam āyānti rākṣasā vighnakāriṇaḥ
atra te puruṣavyāghra hantavyā duṣṭacāriṇaḥ

To this hermitage come rākṣasas who work obstruction; here, O tiger among men, these evildoers are to be slain by you.

Words: etam — this; āśramam — hermitage; āyānti — come, approach; rākṣasā — rākṣasas; vighnakāriṇaḥ — working obstruction, causing hindrance; atra — here; te — by you; puruṣavyāghra — O tiger among men; hantavyā — to be slain; duṣṭacāriṇaḥ — evildoers, of wicked conduct

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.