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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.2.6
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: the travelers encounter a huge, misshapen man-eater wearing a bloodstained tiger skin and carrying an iron spike loaded with lions, tigers, wolves, deer, and an elephant's head
3.2.6
vasānaṃ carmavaiyāghraṃ vasārdraṃ rudhirokṣitam
trāsanaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ vyāditāsyam ivāntakam
He was clad in a tiger's skin, wet with fat and sprinkled with blood, a terror to all beings, like Death with gaping mouth.
Words: vasānaṃ — clothed, wearing; carmavaiyāghraṃ — a tiger-skin garment; vasārdraṃ — wet with fat; rudhirokṣitam — sprinkled with blood; trāsanaṃ — a terror, frightening; sarvabhūtānāṃ — to all beings; vyāditāsyam — with gaping mouth; ivāntakam — like Death
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.