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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.25.8
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 both his arms with two arrows → the club drops, Dūṣaṇa falls dead, and the witnesses praise Rāma
3.25.8
bhraṣṭas tasya mahākāyaḥ papāta raṇamūrdhani
parighaś chinnahastasya śakradhvaja ivāgrataḥ
The huge club, slipping from him whose hands were severed, dropped down before him on the field of battle, like Indra's banner lowered.
Words: bhraṣṭas — fallen, slipped; tasya — his; mahākāyaḥ — huge, massive; papāta — fell; raṇamūrdhani — on the front of battle; parighaś — the iron club; chinnahastasya — of (him) whose hands were severed; śakradhvaja — Indra's banner; ivāgrataḥ — as before (him)
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.