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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.25.17

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: he continues attacking the remaining troops

3.25.17

te rukmapuṅkhā viśikhāḥ sadhūmā iva pāvakāḥ
nijaghnus tāni rakṣāṃsi vajrā iva mahādrumān

Those gold-shafted arrows, like smoking fires, struck down those rākṣasas as thunderbolts shatter great trees.

Words: te — those; rukmapuṅkhā — gold-shafted; viśikhāḥ — arrows; sadhūmā — smoking; iva — like; pāvakāḥ — fires; nijaghnus — struck down, slew; tāni — those; rakṣāṃsi — rākṣasas; vajrā — thunderbolts; iva — like; mahādrumān — great trees

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.