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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.2.7

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

3.2.7

trīn siṃhāṃś caturo vyāghrān dvau vṛkau pṛṣatān daśa
saviṣāṇaṃ vasādigdhaṃ gajasya ca śiro mahat

Three lions, four tigers, two wolves, ten spotted deer, and a great tusked elephant's head smeared with fat —

Words: trīn — three; siṃhāṃś — lions; caturo — four; vyāghrān — tigers; dvau — two; vṛkau — wolves; pṛṣatān — spotted antelopes; daśa — ten; saviṣāṇaṃ — with tusks; vasādigdhaṃ — smeared with fat; gajasya — of an elephant; ca — and; śiro — head; mahat — great

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.