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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.12

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

3.18.12

gandharvarājapratimau pārthivavyañjanānvitau
devau vā mānuṣau vā tau na tarkayitum utsahe

resembling the king of the gandharvas, endowed with royal marks; whether those two are gods or men, I cannot make out.

Words: gandharvarājapratimau — resembling the king of the gandharvas; pārthivavyañjanānvitau — endowed with royal marks; devau vā — whether gods; mānuṣau vā — or men; tau — those two; na — not; tarkayitum — to make out, conjecture; utsahe — I am able

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.