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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.20

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

3.24.20

tair dhanūṃṣi dhvajāgrāṇi varmāṇi ca śirāṃsi ca
bahūn sahastābharaṇān ūrūn karikaropamān

With those (arrows he cut through) bows, banner-tops, and armour, and heads, and many thighs thick as elephants' trunks, with the hands and their ornaments —

Words: tair — with those; dhanūṃṣi — bows; dhvajāgrāṇi — banner-tops; varmāṇi — pieces of armour; ca — and; śirāṃsi — heads; ca — and; bahūn — many; sahastābharaṇān — with hands and ornaments; ūrūn — thighs; karikaropamān — thick as elephants' trunks

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.