Araṇya Kāṇḍa 24: Battle at Janasthāna · 3.24.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 24: Battle at Janasthāna. The army surrounds and wounds Rāma, his arrows drive it back and Dūṣaṇa rallies the survivors to attack with trees and rocks

In the sequence: Khara sees Rāma ready at the hermitage and orders his charioteer to drive toward him → the rākṣasa leaders close around Rāma and shower him with weapons

3.24.1

avaṣṭabdhadhanuṃ rāmaṃ kruddhaṃ ca ripughātinam
dadarśāśramam āgamya kharaḥ saha puraḥsaraiḥ

Coming to the hermitage, Khara, together with his vanguard, saw Rāma — his bow braced, enraged, the slayer of foes.

Words: avaṣṭabdhadhanuṃ — with braced bow; rāmaṃ — Rāma; kruddhaṃ — enraged; ca — and; ripughātinam — slayer of foes; dadarśāśramam — saw (him); the hermitage; āgamya — having come to; kharaḥ — Khara; saha puraḥsaraiḥ — together with (his) vanguard

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.