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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.4

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: Khara sees his bleeding sister and demands to know who has dared injure her → he boasts that he will kill the offender and asks her to recover enough to explain

3.18.4

na hi paśyāmy ahaṃ loke yaḥ kuryān mama vipriyam
antarena sahasrākṣaṃ mahendraṃ pākaśāsanam

For I see no one in the world who could do me such injury — save the thousand-eyed great Indra, chastiser of Pāka.

Words: na hi — for not; paśyāmy — I see; ahaṃ — I; loke — in the world; yaḥ — who; kuryān — could do; mama — to me; vipriyam — injury, offence; antarena — except, save; sahasrākṣaṃ — the thousand-eyed; mahendraṃ — great Indra; pākaśāsanam — chastiser of Pāka

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.