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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.28.27

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: it burns trees and bushes as it flies toward Rāma → Rāma breaks it into pieces with arrows before it reaches him.

3.28.27

tām āpatantīṃ jvalitāṃ mṛtyupāśopamāṃ gadā
antarikṣagatāṃ rāmaś ciccheda bahudhā śaraiḥ

That blazing mace, hurtling on like the noose of death while still in mid-air, Rāma cut into many pieces with his arrows.

Words: tām — that; āpatantīṃ — hurtling on, falling; jvalitāṃ — blazing; mṛtyupāśopamāṃ — like the noose of death; gadā — the mace; antarikṣagatāṃ — gone into mid-air; rāmaś — Rāma; ciccheda — cut; bahudhā — into many (pieces); śaraiḥ — with arrows

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.