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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.14

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

3.28.14

prahara tvaṃ yathākāmaṃ kuru yatnaṃ kulādhama
adya te pātayiṣyāmi śiras tālaphalaṃ yathā

Strike as you please, make your effort, basest of your race; today I shall bring down your head like a palmyra fruit.”

Words: prahara — strike; tvaṃ — you; yathākāmaṃ — as you please; kuru — make; yatnaṃ — effort; kulādhama — O basest of (your) race; adya — today; te — your; pātayiṣyāmi — I shall bring down, fell; śiras — head; tālaphalaṃ — a palmyra fruit; yathā — like, as

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.