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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.25

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: terrified and furious, Śūrpaṇakhā cries out, returns to Khara, and reports their destruction.

3.19.25

nipātitān prekṣya raṇe tu rākṣasān pradhāvitā śūrpaṇakhā punas tataḥ
vadhaṃ ca teṣāṃ nikhilena rakṣasāṃ śaśaṃsa sarvaṃ bhaginī kharasya sā

Seeing the rākṣasas struck down in battle, Śūrpaṇakhā then sped off again; and that sister of Khara related everything in full — the slaughter of all those rākṣasas.

Words: nipātitān — struck down; prekṣya — having seen; raṇe — in battle; tu — and; rākṣasān — the rākṣasas; pradhāvitā — sped off, ran away; śūrpaṇakhā — Śūrpaṇakhā; punas — again; tataḥ — then; vadhaṃ — the slaughter, killing; ca — and; teṣāṃ — of them; nikhilena — entirely, in full; rakṣasāṃ — of the rākṣasas; śaśaṃsa — related, told; sarvaṃ — everything; bhaginī — sister; kharasya — of Khara; sā — she

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.