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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.8
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
3.18.8
taṃ na devā na gandharvā na piśācā na rākṣasāḥ
mayāpakṛṣṭaṃ kṛpaṇaṃ śaktās trātuṃ mahāhave
That wretch, once dragged down by me in the great battle — neither gods, nor gandharvas, nor piśācas, nor rākṣasas are able to save him.
Words: taṃ — him; na devā — not the gods; na gandharvā — not the gandharvas; na piśācā — not the piśācas; na rākṣasāḥ — not the rākṣasas; mayāpakṛṣṭaṃ — dragged down by me; kṛpaṇaṃ — the wretch, pitiable one; śaktās — able; trātuṃ — to save, protect; mahāhave — in the great 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.