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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 28: Khara’s mace destroyed. Rāma condemns his attacks on the ṛṣis, Khara throws a blazing mace and Rāma shatters it with arrows

In the sequence: he declares that he has come to punish those who harm others and that Khara will now face the fate of his victims

3.28.10

pāpam āccaratāṃ ghoraṃ lokasyāpriyam icchatām
aham āsādito rājā prāṇān hantuṃ niśācara

For those committing dreadful evil and wishing harm to the world, I, the king, have come to take their lives, O night-roamer.

Words: pāpam — evil; āccaratāṃ — of those committing; ghoraṃ — dreadful; lokasyāpriyam — harm to the world; icchatām — of those wishing; aham — I; āsādito — have come, arrived; rājā — the king; prāṇān — the life-breaths, lives; hantuṃ — to take, slay; niśācara — O night-roamer

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.