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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.11
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: she describes two powerful, handsome young men dressed in bark and deerskin, with a beautiful woman between them → she says they disfigured her on the woman's account and asks to drink the blood of all three
3.18.11
taruṇau rūpasaṃpannau sukūmārau mahābalau
puṇḍarīkaviśālākṣau cīrakṛṣṇājināmbarau
“(There are) two young men, endowed with beauty, delicate, of great strength, with eyes broad as white lotuses, clad in bark and black antelope-skin garments,
Words: taruṇau — two young (men); rūpasaṃpannau — endowed with beauty; sukūmārau — delicate, very tender; mahābalau — of great strength; puṇḍarīkaviśālākṣau — with eyes broad as white lotuses; cīrakṛṣṇājināmbarau — clad in bark and black antelope-skin garments
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.