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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.14
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
3.18.14
tābhyām ubhābhyāṃ saṃbhūya pramadām adhikṛtya tām
imām avasthāṃ nītāhaṃ yathānāthāsatī tathā
The two of them together, on account of that woman, brought me to this state, as though I were some unprotected, worthless creature.
Words: tābhyām — by those two; ubhābhyāṃ — by both; saṃbhūya — together, jointly; pramadām — woman; adhikṛtya — on account of, with reference to; tām — that; imām — this; avasthāṃ — state, condition; nītāhaṃ — I was brought; yathānāthāsatī — as though an unprotected, worthless woman; tathā — so, thus
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.