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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.2.24
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.
3.2.24
mama bhujabalavegavegitaḥ patatu śaro 'sya mahān mahorasi
vyapanayatu tanoś ca jīvitaṃ patatu tataś ca mahīṃ vighūrṇitaḥ
Sped by the force of my arm's might, let my great arrow fall upon his broad chest, let it drive the life from his body, and then let him, reeling, fall to the ground.
Words: mama — my; bhujabalavegavegitaḥ — sped by the force of my arm's might; patatu — let it fall; śaro — the arrow; 'sya — of him, his; mahān — great; mahorasi — upon the broad chest; vyapanayatu — let it take away, remove; tanoś — of the body; ca — and; jīvitaṃ — life; patatu — let (him) fall; tataś — then; ca — and; mahīṃ — to the ground, earth; vighūrṇitaḥ — reeling, whirling
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.