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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.24.6

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: Khara sees Rāma ready at the hermitage and orders his charioteer to drive toward him → the rākṣasa leaders close around Rāma and shower him with weapons

3.24.6

tatas taṃ bhīmadhanvānaṃ kruddhāḥ sarve niśācarāḥ
rāmaṃ nānāvidhaiḥ śastrair abhyavarṣanta durjayam

Then all the night-roamers, enraged, showered Rāma — of fearsome bow, invincible — with weapons of every kind.

Words: tatas — then; taṃ — him; bhīmadhanvānaṃ — of fearsome bow; kruddhāḥ — enraged; sarve — all; niśācarāḥ — night-roamers; rāmaṃ — Rāma; nānāvidhaiḥ — of various kinds; śastrair — with weapons; abhyavarṣanta — showered, rained upon; durjayam — invincible

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.