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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.23.24

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 surveys the formation and prepares to fight alone.

3.23.24

rāmo 'pi cārayaṃś cakṣuḥ sarvato raṇapaṇḍitaḥ
dadarśa kharasainyaṃ tad yuddhābhimukham udyatam

And Rāma too, skilled in war, casting his glance all around, beheld that army of Khara, arrayed and facing him for battle.

Words: rāmo 'pi — and Rāma too; cārayaṃś — casting, moving; cakṣuḥ — (his) eye, glance; sarvato — all around; raṇapaṇḍitaḥ — skilled in war; dadarśa — beheld; kharasainyaṃ — the army of Khara; tad — that; yuddhābhimukham — facing for battle; udyatam — arrayed, ready

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.