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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.23.26

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.

3.23.26

duṣprekṣyaḥ so 'bhavat kruddho yugāntāgnir iva jvalan
taṃ dṛṣṭvā tejasāviṣṭaṃ prāvyathan vanadevatāḥ

Enraged, he became hard to look upon, blazing like the fire at the end of an age; seeing him filled with fiery energy, the forest-deities trembled.

Words: duṣprekṣyaḥ — hard to look upon; so 'bhavat — he became; kruddho — enraged; yugāntāgnir — the fire at the end of an age; iva — like; jvalan — blazing; taṃ — him; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; tejasāviṣṭaṃ — filled with fiery energy; prāvyathan — trembled, were troubled; vanadevatāḥ — the forest-deities

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.