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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.25.22
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: the account summarizes the destruction as fourteen thousand rākṣasas slain by one man fighting on foot, then identifies Khara and Triśiras as the remaining principal opponents → Khara drives toward Rāma.
3.25.22
caturdaśa sahasrāṇi rakṣasāṃ bhīmakarmaṇām
hatāny ekena rāmeṇa mānuṣeṇa padātinā
Fourteen thousand rākṣasas of dreadful deeds were slain by Rāma alone, a man, on foot.
Words: caturdaśa — fourteen; sahasrāṇi — thousand; rakṣasāṃ — of rākṣasas; bhīmakarmaṇām — of dreadful deeds; hatāny — slain; ekena — by one, alone; rāmeṇa — by Rāma; mānuṣeṇa — a man, human; padātinā — on foot, a foot-soldier
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.