Araṇya Kāṇḍa 23: Rāma prepares to fight alone · 3.23.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.23.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 23: Rāma prepares to fight alone. He reads the omens as signs of victory, sends Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa into a mountain cave and faces the fourteen thousand

In the sequence: Rāma sees the portents too and interprets them as foretelling the rākṣasas' destruction

3.23.1

āśramaṃ prati yāte tu khare kharaparākrame
tān evautpātikān rāmaḥ saha bhrātrā dadarśa ha

As Khara, of harsh valour, was marching toward the hermitage, Rāma, together with his brother, beheld those very portents.

Words: āśramaṃ prati — toward the hermitage; yāte — as (he) was going; tu — and; khare — Khara; kharaparākrame — of harsh valour; tān — those; evautpātikān — those very portents, portentous signs; rāmaḥ — Rāma; saha bhrātrā — with (his) brother; dadarśa — beheld, saw; ha — indeed

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.