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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.23.17

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: the Devas, gandharvas, siddhas, cāraṇas and guhyakas wonder how one man can face fourteen thousand enemies

3.23.17

tato devāḥ sagandharvāḥ siddhāś ca saha cāraṇaiḥ
ūcuḥ paramasaṃtrastā guhyakāś ca parasparam

Then the gods with the gandharvas, and the siddhas together with the cāraṇas, and the guhyakas, greatly alarmed, said to one another:

Words: tato — then; devāḥ — the gods; sagandharvāḥ — with the gandharvas; siddhāś — siddhas; ca — and; saha cāraṇaiḥ — together with the cāraṇas; ūcuḥ — said; paramasaṃtrastā — greatly alarmed; guhyakāś — the guhyakas (attendants of Kubera); ca — and; parasparam — to one another

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.