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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.29.24

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: bleeding heavily, Khara rushes straight at Rāma → Rāma steps back and takes a blazing arrow, identified here as a gift of Indra

3.29.24

tataḥ pāvakasaṃkāśaṃ badhāya samare śaram
kharasya rāmo jagrāha brahmadaṇḍam ivāparam

Then, to slay Khara in battle, Rāma took up an arrow bright as fire, like a second staff of Brahmā.

Words: tataḥ — then; pāvakasaṃkāśaṃ — bright as fire; badhāya — for the slaying; samare — in battle; śaram — an arrow; kharasya — of Khara; rāmo — Rāma; jagrāha — took up; brahmadaṇḍam — the staff of Brahmā; ivāparam — like another

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.