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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.27.24

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 27: Rāma takes up Viṣṇu’s bow. Khara breaks his bow and shoots away his armour, Rāma uses Agastya’s gift to destroy Khara’s chariot and bow

In the sequence: Khara wounds him again, and Rāma replies with six arrows to Khara's head, arms, and chest

3.27.24

sa dhanur dhanvināṃ śreṣṭhaḥ pragṛhya paramāhave
mumoca parameṣvāsaḥ ṣaṭ śarān abhilakṣitān

That best of bowmen, the supreme archer, grasping his bow in the great combat, loosed six well-aimed arrows.

Words: sa — he; dhanur — bow; dhanvināṃ — of bowmen; śreṣṭhaḥ — the best; pragṛhya — having grasped; paramāhave — in the great combat; mumoca — loosed; parameṣvāsaḥ — the supreme archer; ṣaṭ — six; śarān — arrows; abhilakṣitān — well-aimed, marked out

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.