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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.2.20

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 2: Virādha’s attack. The weapon-bearing man-eater seizes Sītā and claims her as his wife, Lakṣmaṇa steadies Rāma and vows to kill him

In the sequence: Lakṣmaṇa urges him not to despair while he is there to help → he vows to kill Virādha and says he will release against him the anger he formerly felt toward Bharata.

3.2.20

iti bruvati kākutsthe bāṣpaśokapariplute
abravīl lakṣmaṇaḥ kruddho ruddho nāga iva śvasan

As Kākutstha (Rāma), overcome with tears and grief, was speaking thus, Lakṣmaṇa, enraged, spoke, hissing like a cornered serpent:

Words: iti — thus; bruvati — (as he) was speaking; kākutsthe — Kākutstha (Rāma); bāṣpaśokapariplute — overwhelmed with tears and grief; abravīl — said; lakṣmaṇaḥ — Lakṣmaṇa; kruddho — enraged; ruddho — cornered, confined; nāga — serpent, elephant; iva — like; śvasan — hissing, breathing hard

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.