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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.29.15

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 29: Protection of Siddhāśrama: Rāma’s three astras. Rāma casts Mārīca into the sea with the Mānava astra, kills Subāhu with the Āgneya astra and defeats the remaining rākṣasas with the Vāyavya astra, allowing the yajña to finish

In the sequence: he strikes Mārīca in the breast with it, hurling him a hundred yojanas into the surging ocean

1.29.15

sa tena paramāstreṇa mānavena samāhitaḥ
saṃpūrṇaṃ yojanaśataṃ kṣiptaḥ sāgarasaṃplave

Struck by that supreme Mānava weapon, he was flung a full hundred yojanas, into the surging flood of the ocean.

Words: sa — he; tena — by that; paramāstreṇa — supreme weapon; mānavena — the Mānava; samāhitaḥ — struck, assailed; saṃpūrṇaṃ — full, complete; yojanaśataṃ — a hundred yojanas; kṣiptaḥ — flung, hurled; sāgarasaṃplave — into the flood of the ocean

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.