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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.13

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

3.24.13

sa viddhaḥ kṣatajādigdhaḥ sarvagātreṣu rāghavaḥ
babhūva rāmaḥ saṃdhyābhrair divākara ivāvṛtaḥ

Rāghava, pierced and smeared with blood over all his limbs, became like the sun veiled by the twilight clouds.

Words: sa — he; viddhaḥ — pierced; kṣatajādigdhaḥ — smeared with blood; sarvagātreṣu — over all (his) limbs; rāghavaḥ — Rāghava; babhūva — became; rāmaḥ — Rāma; saṃdhyābhrair — by the twilight clouds; divākara — the sun; ivāvṛtaḥ — like (one) veiled

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.