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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.25.15

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 25: Dūṣaṇa’s death. Rāma severs his arms, kills three commanders and destroys the troops, leaving Khara & Triśiras as the principal opponents

In the sequence: Rāma cuts off Mahākapāla's head, strikes Pramāthin down with a mass of arrows, and kills Sthūlākṣa with arrows through the eyes

3.25.15

sthūlākṣasyākṣiṇī tīkṣṇaiḥ pūrayām āsa sāyakaiḥ
sa papāta hato bhūmau viṭapīva mahādrumaḥ

He filled the eyes of Sthūlākṣa with sharp arrows; slain, he fell to the ground like a great branching tree.

Words: sthūlākṣasyākṣiṇī — Sthūlākṣa's (two) eyes; tīkṣṇaiḥ — sharp; pūrayām āsa — filled; sāyakaiḥ — with arrows; sa — he; papāta — fell; hato — slain; bhūmau — on the ground; viṭapīva — like a branching tree; mahādrumaḥ — a great tree

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.