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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.11

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 19: Rāma kills the fourteen. He offers withdrawal, cuts down their fourteen spears with one volley and kills them with fourteen further arrows

In the sequence: they reject the warning, mock the prospect of one man resisting their numbers, and threaten to kill him for provoking Khara

3.19.11

tasya tadvacanaṃ śrutvā rākṣasās te caturdaśa
ūcur vācaṃ susaṃkruddhā brahmaghnaḥ śūlapāṇayaḥ

Hearing those words of his, those fourteen rākṣasas, greatly enraged, slayers of brahmins, spears in hand, spoke (these) words —

Words: tasya — his; tadvacanaṃ — those words; śrutvā — having heard; rākṣasās — the rākṣasas; te — those; caturdaśa — fourteen; ūcur — spoke; vācaṃ — words, speech; susaṃkruddhā — greatly enraged; brahmaghnaḥ — slayers of brahmins; śūlapāṇayaḥ — spears in hand

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.