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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.17

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 responds with hundreds and thousands of arrows, killing attackers and cutting through their weapons, standards, armor, and limbs

3.24.17

te śarāḥ śatrusainyeṣu muktā rāmeṇa līlayā
ādadū rakṣasāṃ prāṇān pāśāḥ kālakṛtā iva

Those arrows, loosed with ease by Rāma into the enemy hosts, took away the lives of the rākṣasas like nooses fashioned by Death.

Words: te — those; śarāḥ — arrows; śatrusainyeṣu — into the enemy hosts; muktā — loosed; rāmeṇa — by Rāma; līlayā — with ease; ādadū — took away; rakṣasāṃ — of the rākṣasas; prāṇān — life-breaths, lives; pāśāḥ — nooses; kālakṛtā — fashioned by Death; iva — like

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.