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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.26

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: Dūṣaṇa rallies and reassures them, then leads a renewed attack with uprooted trees and rocks.

3.24.26

tān sarvān punar ādāya samāśvāsya ca dūṣaṇaḥ
abhyadhāvata kākutsthaṃ kruddho rudram ivāntakaḥ

Rallying all of them again and reassuring them, Dūṣaṇa rushed upon Kākutstha, enraged, like Death (Antaka) upon Rudra.

Words: tān — them; sarvān — all; punar — again; ādāya — having taken up, rallied; samāśvāsya — having reassured, comforted; ca — and; dūṣaṇaḥ — Dūṣaṇa; abhyadhāvata — rushed upon; kākutsthaṃ — Kākutstha (Rāma); kruddho — enraged; rudram — Rudra (Śiva); ivāntakaḥ — like Death (Antaka)

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.