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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.20.2

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 20: Śūrpaṇakhā challenges Khara. She reports the fourteen deaths, threatens to die and tells him to fight Rāma or abandon Janasthāna

In the sequence: Khara asks why she has returned weeping when he sent loyal, powerful fighters to help her

3.20.2

mayā tv idānīṃ śūrās te rākṣasā rudhirāśanāḥ
tvatpriyārthaṃ vinirdiṣṭāḥ kimarthaṃ rudyate punaḥ

“Those brave, blood-eating rākṣasas were just now dispatched by me for your sake; why do you weep again?

Words: mayā — by me; tv — indeed; idānīṃ — now, just now; śūrās — brave; te — those; rākṣasā — rākṣasas; rudhirāśanāḥ — blood-eating; tvatpriyārthaṃ — for your sake; vinirdiṣṭāḥ — dispatched, appointed; kimarthaṃ — why, for what; rudyate — is there weeping; punaḥ — again

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.