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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.15
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
3.18.15
tasyāś cānṛjuvṛttāyās tayoś ca hatayor aham
saphenaṃ pātum icchāmi rudhiraṃ raṇamūrdhani
I wish to drink, on the front of battle, the foaming blood of that crooked-natured woman and of those two, once they are slain.
Words: tasyāś — of her; cānṛjuvṛttāyās — and of the crooked-natured one; tayoś — of those two; ca — and; hatayor — of the (two) slain; aham — I; saphenaṃ — foaming; pātum — to drink; icchāmi — I wish; rudhiraṃ — blood; raṇamūrdhani — on the front of battle
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.