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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.12

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

3.19.12

saṃraktanayanā ghorā rāmaṃ raktāntalocanam
paruṣā madhurābhāṣaṃ hṛṣṭādṛṣṭaparākramam

their eyes bloodshot, dreadful and harsh — (they addressed) Rāma, whose eyes were red at the corners, sweet in speech, delighted, his prowess (as yet) unseen:

Words: saṃraktanayanā — with bloodshot eyes (they); ghorā — dreadful (they); rāmaṃ — Rāma; raktāntalocanam — with eyes red at the corners; paruṣā — harsh (they); madhurābhāṣaṃ — sweet in speech (Rāma); hṛṣṭādṛṣṭaparākramam — delighted, his valour unseen (Rāma)

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.