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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.11

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: Rāma intercepts the missiles with arrows; although wounded and covered in blood, he holds his ground

3.24.11

tāni muktāni śastrāṇi yātudhānaiḥ sa rāghavaḥ
pratijagrāha viśikhair nadyoghān iva sāgaraḥ

Rāghava received with his arrows those weapons loosed by the yātudhānas, as the ocean receives the floods of the rivers.

Words: tāni — those; muktāni — loosed, hurled; śastrāṇi — weapons; yātudhānaiḥ — by the yātudhānas; sa — he; rāghavaḥ — Rāghava; pratijagrāha — received, met, caught; viśikhair — with (his) arrows; nadyoghān — the floods of the rivers; iva — as, like; sāgaraḥ — the ocean

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.