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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.25.18
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 kills a hundred rākṣasas with a hundred arrows, and a thousand with a thousand
3.25.18
rakṣasāṃ tu śataṃ rāmaḥ śatenaikena karṇinā
sahasraṃ ca sahasreṇa jaghāna raṇamūrdhani
On the front of battle Rāma slew a hundred of the rākṣasas with a single hundred of barbed arrows, and a thousand with a thousand.
Words: rakṣasāṃ — of the rākṣasas; tu — and; śataṃ — a hundred; rāmaḥ — Rāma; śatenaikena — with a single hundred; karṇinā — with barbed arrows; sahasraṃ — a thousand; ca — and; sahasreṇa — with a thousand; jaghāna — slew; raṇamūrdhani — on the front of battle
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.