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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.17

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: Rāma cuts down the spears with fourteen arrows, then takes fourteen more and shoots the attackers

3.19.17

tāni śūlāni kākutsthaḥ samastāni caturdaśa
tāvadbhir eva ciccheda śaraiḥ kāñcanabhūṣaṇaiḥ

Kākutstha (Rāma) cut down all those fourteen spears together with just as many gold-adorned arrows.

Words: tāni — those; śūlāni — spears; kākutsthaḥ — Kākutstha (Rāma); samastāni — all together; caturdaśa — fourteen; tāvadbhir eva — with just that many; ciccheda — cut down, split; śaraiḥ — with arrows; kāñcanabhūṣaṇaiḥ — gold-adorned

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.