Araṇya Kāṇḍa 18: Khara sends fourteen rākṣasas · 3.18.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 18: Khara sends fourteen rākṣasas. Śūrpaṇakhā demands the blood of Rāma, Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa and leads Khara’s warriors to their hermitage

In the sequence: Khara sees his bleeding sister and demands to know who has dared injure her → he boasts that he will kill the offender and asks her to recover enough to explain

3.18.1

tāṃ tathā patitāṃ dṛṣṭvā virūpāṃ śoṇitokṣitām
bhaginīṃ krodhasaṃtaptaḥ kharaḥ papraccha rākṣasaḥ

Seeing his sister thus fallen, disfigured, and drenched in blood, the rākṣasa Khara, burning with rage, questioned her:

Words: tāṃ — her; tathā — thus; patitāṃ — fallen; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; virūpāṃ — disfigured; śoṇitokṣitām — drenched in blood; bhaginīṃ — sister; krodhasaṃtaptaḥ — burning with rage; kharaḥ — Khara; papraccha — asked, questioned; rākṣasaḥ — the rākṣasa

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.