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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.7
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
3.18.7
kasya patrarathāḥ kāyān māṃsam utkṛtya saṃgatāḥ
prahṛṣṭā bhakṣayiṣyanti nihatasya mayā raṇe
Of whom slain by me in battle shall the birds, gathering, tear the flesh from his body and joyfully devour it?
Words: kasya — of whom; patrarathāḥ — the birds (winged ones); kāyān — from the body; māṃsam — flesh; utkṛtya — having torn out, cut off; saṃgatāḥ — gathered, come together; prahṛṣṭā — delighted, joyful; bhakṣayiṣyanti — will devour; nihatasya — of (him) slain; mayā — by me; raṇe — in battle
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.