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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.23.25

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.

3.23.25

vitatya ca dhanur bhīmaṃ tūṇyāś coddhṛtya sāyakān
krodham āhārayat tīvraṃ vadhārthaṃ sarvarakṣasām

And drawing his fearsome bow and taking arrows from his quiver, he summoned up a fierce wrath for the slaying of all the rākṣasas.

Words: vitatya — having drawn, stretched; ca — and; dhanur — bow; bhīmaṃ — fearsome; tūṇyāś — from the quiver; coddhṛtya — and having drawn out; sāyakān — arrows; krodham — wrath; āhārayat — summoned up, brought forth; tīvraṃ — fierce, keen; vadhārthaṃ — for the slaying; sarvarakṣasām — of all the rākṣasas

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.