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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.11.33
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 11: Agastya’s gifts of weapons. He gives Rāma Viṣṇu’s bow, Brahmā’s arrow, Indra’s inexhaustible quivers and a gold-adorned sword
In the sequence: he explains that Viṣṇu used this bow to defeat the asuras and recover sovereignty for the Devas → he gives the weapons to Rāma for victory.
3.11.33
tad dhanus tau ca tūṇīrau śaraṃ khaḍgaṃ ca mānada
jayāya pratigṛhṇīṣva vajraṃ vajradharo yathā
That bow, those two quivers, the arrow and the sword, O bestower of honour, take up for victory, as the wielder of the thunderbolt takes his vajra.”
Words: tad — that; dhanus — bow; tau — the two; ca — and; tūṇīrau — quivers; śaraṃ — arrow; khaḍgaṃ — sword; ca — and; mānada — O bestower of honour; jayāya — for victory; pratigṛhṇīṣva — take up, accept; vajraṃ — the thunderbolt (vajra); vajradharo — the wielder of the thunderbolt (Indra); yathā — as
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.