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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.18.9
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
3.18.9
upalabhya śanaiḥ saṃjñāṃ taṃ me śaṃsitum arhasi
yena tvaṃ durvinītena vane vikramya nirjitā
Regaining your senses gradually, you ought to tell me who that ill-mannered one is, by whom you were assailed and vanquished in the forest.
Words: upalabhya — having regained; śanaiḥ — gradually, slowly; saṃjñāṃ — consciousness, senses; taṃ — him; me — to me; śaṃsitum — to tell; arhasi — you ought; yena — by whom; tvaṃ — you; durvinītena — ill-mannered, ill-behaved; vane — in the forest; vikramya — having assailed, by force; nirjitā — vanquished, conquered
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.