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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.13

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

3.28.13

adya tvāṃ nihataṃ bāṇaiḥ paśyantu paramarṣayaḥ
nirayasthaṃ vimānasthā ye tvayā hiṃsitāḥ purā

Let those supreme seers whom you formerly harmed, now stationed in celestial cars, behold you today, slain by my arrows and cast into hell.

Words: adya — today; tvāṃ — you; nihataṃ — slain; bāṇaiḥ — by arrows; paśyantu — let (them) behold; paramarṣayaḥ — the supreme seers; nirayasthaṃ — cast into hell; vimānasthā — stationed in celestial cars; ye — who; tvayā — by you; hiṃsitāḥ — harmed, injured; purā — formerly

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.