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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.21

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: the shafts pierce their chests and enter the earth; all fourteen fall dead

3.19.21

te bhittvā rakṣasāṃ vegād vakṣāṃsi rudhirāplutāḥ
viniṣpetus tadā bhūmau nyamajjantāśanisvanāḥ

Piercing the breasts of the rākṣasas with force and drenched in blood, they then sprang out and sank into the ground with the sound of thunderbolts.

Words: te — they (the arrows); bhittvā — having pierced; rakṣasāṃ — of the rākṣasas; vegād — with force, swiftly; vakṣāṃsi — the breasts; rudhirāplutāḥ — drenched in blood; viniṣpetus — sprang out, flew forth; tadā — then; bhūmau — into the ground; nyamajjantāśanisvanāḥ — sank, with the sound of thunderbolts

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.