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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.3.6

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 3: Virādha’s defeat and release. The brothers break his arms, he reveals himself as the cursed Tumburu, directs them to Śarabhaṅga and asks for burial

In the sequence: Virādha names his parents as Jaya and Śatahradā and claims that Brahmā rewarded his austerities with immunity to cutting and piercing by weapons → he offers to spare the brothers if they abandon Sītā and leave

3.3.6

tapasā cāpi me prāptā brahmaṇo hi prasādajā
śastreṇāvadhyatā loke 'cchedyābhedyatvam eva ca

By austerity, and born of Brahmā's grace, I have gained in this world invulnerability to weapons, and the state of being neither cut nor pierced.

Words: tapasā — by austerity; cāpi — and also; me — by me; prāptā — obtained; brahmaṇo — of Brahmā; hi — indeed; prasādajā — born of grace; śastreṇāvadhyatā — invulnerability to weapons; loke — in the world; 'cchedyābhedyatvam — the state of being uncuttable and unpierceable; eva — indeed; ca — and

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.