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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.28

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.

3.24.28

tad babhūvādbhutaṃ yuddhaṃ tumulaṃ romaharṣaṇam
rāmasyāsya mahāghoraṃ punas teṣāṃ ca rakṣasām

Then there was a marvellous, tumultuous, hair-raising, most dreadful battle between this Rāma on the one side and those rākṣasas on the other.

Words: tad — then, that; babhūvādbhutaṃ — there was a marvellous; yuddhaṃ — battle; tumulaṃ — tumultuous; romaharṣaṇam — hair-raising; rāmasyāsya — of this Rāma; mahāghoraṃ — most dreadful; punas — again, on the other hand; teṣāṃ — of those; ca — and; rakṣasām — of the rākṣasas

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.