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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.21

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: Śūrpaṇakhā leads them to the hermitage.

3.18.21

iti pratisamādiṣṭā rākṣasās te caturdaśa
tatra jagmus tayā sārdhaṃ ghanā vāteritā yathā

Thus commanded, those fourteen rākṣasas went there together with her, like clouds driven by the wind.

Words: iti — thus; pratisamādiṣṭā — commanded, instructed; rākṣasās — the rākṣasas; te — those; caturdaśa — fourteen; tatra — there; jagmus — went; tayā sārdhaṃ — together with her; ghanā — clouds; vāteritā — driven by the wind; yathā — like

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.