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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.29.6

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 predicts Khara's death and the freedom it will bring to munis who have lived in fear of Janasthāna

3.29.6

adya te bhinnakaṇṭhasya phenabudbudabhūṣitam
vidāritasya madbāṇair mahī pāsyati śoṇitam

Today the earth shall drink the blood — adorned with foam and bubbles — of you whose throat is cut and body torn open by my arrows.

Words: adya — today; te — your; bhinnakaṇṭhasya — of (you) with throat cut; phenabudbudabhūṣitam — adorned with foam and bubbles; vidāritasya — of (you) torn open; madbāṇair — by my arrows; mahī — the earth; pāsyati — will drink; śoṇitam — blood

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.