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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.24

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: promising to avenge the fourteen thousand, he throws the blazing mace

3.28.24

caturdaśa sahasrāṇi rākṣasānāṃ hatāni te
tvadvināśāt karomy adya teṣām aśrupramārjanam

Fourteen thousand rākṣasas have been slain by you; by your destruction today I shall wipe away the tears shed for them.

Words: caturdaśa — fourteen; sahasrāṇi — thousand; rākṣasānāṃ — of rākṣasas; hatāni — slain; te — by you; tvadvināśāt — by your destruction; karomy — I make, do; adya — today; teṣām — for them, of them; aśrupramārjanam — the wiping away of tears

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.