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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.11

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

3.28.11

adya hi tvāṃ mayā muktāḥ śarāḥ kāñcanabhūṣaṇāḥ
vidārya nipatiṣyanti valmīkam iva pannagāḥ

For today the gold-adorned arrows loosed by me shall tear you and plunge in, as serpents enter an anthill.

Words: adya — today; hi — for; tvāṃ — you; mayā — by me; muktāḥ — loosed; śarāḥ — arrows; kāñcanabhūṣaṇāḥ — gold-adorned; vidārya — having torn; nipatiṣyanti — will fall into, plunge; valmīkam — an anthill; iva — as, like; pannagāḥ — serpents

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.