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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.53.19

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 53: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śabalā resists seizure. The King seizes Śabalā, she returns to Vasiṣṭha and, with his permission, produces armies to resist the royal forces

In the sequence: hundreds of Pahlavas spring from her bellow and devastate Viśvāmitra's troops → the King kills them with his weapons

1.53.19

sa rājā paramakruddhaḥ krodhavisphāritekṣaṇaḥ
pahlavān nāśayām āsa śastrair uccāvacair api

That king, exceedingly enraged, his eyes wide with wrath, destroyed the Pahlavas with weapons of every sort.

Words: sa — that; rājā — king; paramakruddhaḥ — exceedingly enraged; krodhavisphāritekṣaṇaḥ — his eyes wide with wrath; pahlavān — the Pahlavas; nāśayām āsa — destroyed; śastrair — with weapons; uccāvacair — of high and low (every) kind; api — even, also

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.