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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.19

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: Khara answers that killing ordinary troops is no reason to boast → he claims that his mace is enough to kill Rāma and cuts the argument short because sunset would interrupt their fight

3.28.19

kulaṃ vyapadiśan vīraḥ samare ko 'bhidhāsyati
mṛtyukāle hi saṃprāpte svayam aprastave stavam

What hero, in battle, would proclaim his lineage and utter self-praise, unprompted, when the hour of death has arrived?

Words: kulaṃ — lineage, family; vyapadiśan — pointing to, proclaiming; vīraḥ — a hero; samare — in battle; ko — who; 'bhidhāsyati — would declare, utter; mṛtyukāle — at the time of death; hi — for; saṃprāpte — when arrived; svayam — of oneself, unprompted; aprastave — on an unfit occasion; stavam — praise, eulogy

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.