← 3.18.5 · Araṇya Kāṇḍa 18: Khara sends fourteen rākṣasas · 3.18.7 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.6

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

3.18.6

nihatasya mayā saṃkhye śarasaṃkṛttamarmaṇaḥ
saphenaṃ rudhiraṃ raktaṃ medinī kasya pāsyati

Whose red, foaming blood — his vital parts pierced by my arrows, slain by me in battle — shall the earth drink up?

Words: nihatasya — of (him) slain; mayā — by me; saṃkhye — in battle; śarasaṃkṛttamarmaṇaḥ — whose vitals are torn by arrows; saphenaṃ — foaming; rudhiraṃ — blood; raktaṃ — red; medinī — the earth; kasya — whose; pāsyati — will drink

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.