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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.19.5

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 tells Lakṣmaṇa to stay beside Sītā while he confronts the arrivals

3.19.5

vākyam etat tataḥ śrutvā rāmasya viditātmanaḥ
tatheti lakṣmaṇo vākyaṃ rāmasya pratyapūjayat

Then, hearing this speech of the wise Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa honoured Rāma's word with a “So be it.”

Words: vākyam etat — this speech; tataḥ — then; śrutvā — having heard; rāmasya — of Rāma; viditātmanaḥ — of him who knows himself, the wise-souled; tatheti — 'so be it'; lakṣmaṇo — Lakṣmaṇa; vākyaṃ — the word; rāmasya — of Rāma; pratyapūjayat — honoured, assented to

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.