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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.21.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 21: Khara’s army mobilizes. Dūṣaṇa assembles fourteen thousand rākṣasas, Khara mounts his chariot and the armed force marches from Janasthāna

In the sequence: Khara orders his commander Dūṣaṇa to mobilize fourteen thousand rākṣasas and prepare his chariot and weapons

3.21.10

teṣāṃ śārdūladarpāṇāṃ mahāsyānāaṃ mahaujasām
sarvodyogam udīrṇānāṃ rakṣasāṃ saumya kāraya

of those rākṣasas, proud as tigers, huge-mouthed, of great vigour, aroused (for war) — bring about, gentle one, their full mobilization.

Words: teṣāṃ — of those; śārdūladarpāṇāṃ — proud as tigers; mahāsyānāaṃ — huge-mouthed; mahaujasām — of great vigour; sarvodyogam — full mobilization, complete effort; udīrṇānāṃ — roused, excited; rakṣasāṃ — of the rākṣasas; saumya — gentle one; kāraya — bring about, arrange

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.