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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.16

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 rush forward and throw fourteen spears

3.19.16

ity evam uktvā saṃrabdhā rākṣasās te caturdaśa
udyatāyudhanistriṃśā rāmam evābhidudruvuḥ
cikṣipus tāni śūlāni rāghavaṃ prati durjayam

Having spoken thus, those fourteen furious rākṣasas, their weapons and swords upraised, rushed straight at Rāma, and hurled those spears at the invincible Rāghava.

Words: ity evam uktvā — having spoken thus; saṃrabdhā — furious, agitated; rākṣasās — the rākṣasas; te — those; caturdaśa — fourteen; udyatāyudhanistriṃśā — with weapons and swords upraised; rāmam — at Rāma; evābhidudruvuḥ — indeed rushed at; cikṣipus — hurled; tāni — those; śūlāni — spears; rāghavaṃ prati — at Rāghava; durjayam — the invincible

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.