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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.19

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

3.24.19

asaṃkhyeyās tu rāmasya sāyakāś cāpamaṇḍalāt
viniṣpetur atīvogrā rakṣaḥ prāṇāpahāriṇaḥ

Countless arrows of Rāma, exceedingly fierce, sped forth from the circle of his bow, carrying off the lives of the rākṣasas.

Words: asaṃkhyeyās — countless; tu — and; rāmasya — of Rāma; sāyakāś — arrows; cāpamaṇḍalāt — from the circle of the bow; viniṣpetur — sped forth, flew out; atīvogrā — exceedingly fierce; rakṣaḥ — of the rākṣasas; prāṇāpahāriṇaḥ — carrying off (their) lives

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.