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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.13

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

3.19.13

krodham utpādya no bhartuḥ kharasya sumahātmanaḥ
tvam eva hāsyase prāṇān adyāsmābhir hato yudhi

“Having provoked the wrath of our lord, the great-souled Khara, you alone shall lose your life, slain by us today in battle.

Words: krodham — wrath, anger; utpādya — having provoked, produced; no — our; bhartuḥ — of (our) lord; kharasya — of Khara; sumahātmanaḥ — the very great-souled; tvam eva — you alone; hāsyase — you shall lose, give up; prāṇān — life-breaths, life; adyāsmābhir — today by us; hato — slain; yudhi — in battle

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.