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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.27

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 39: Story of Sagara: Kapila’s anger and the sons’ destruction. The sons pass the elephants supporting the earth and find the horse beside Kapila, they accuse him of theft and his “huṃ” reduces them to ashes

In the sequence: Kapila utters an angry “huṃ” → all sixty thousand are reduced to ashes.

1.39.27

śrutvā tad vacanaṃ teṣāṃ kapilo raghunandana
roṣeṇa mahatāviṣṭo huṃkāram akarot tadā

Hearing that word of theirs, O joy of the Raghus, Kapila, seized with great fury, then uttered a roar (huṃ).

Words: śrutvā — having heard; tad — that; vacanaṃ — word; teṣāṃ — of them, their; kapilo — Kapila; raghunandana — O joy of the Raghus; roṣeṇa — with fury, anger; mahatāviṣṭo — possessed by great (rage); huṃkāram — a roar, the sound ‘huṃ’; akarot — made, uttered; tadā — then

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.