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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.29.21

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 29: Rāma kills Khara with Indra’s arrow. He shatters Khara’s thrown tree, kills him and hears the ṛṣis’ plan, Sītā returns to embrace him

In the sequence: he throws it, but Rāma cuts it apart and strikes him with a thousand arrows

3.29.21

tasya bāṇāntarād raktaṃ bahu susrāva phenilam
gireḥ prasravaṇasyeva toyadhārāparisravaḥ

From between his arrow-wounds much foaming blood streamed forth, like a gushing torrent of water from a mountain spring.

Words: tasya — his; bāṇāntarād — from between the arrows (wounds); raktaṃ — blood; bahu — much; susrāva — streamed forth; phenilam — foaming; gireḥ — of a mountain; prasravaṇasyeva — as from a spring; toyadhārāparisravaḥ — a gushing stream of water

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.