Araṇya Kāṇḍa 30: Śūrpaṇakhā reaches Rāvaṇa’s court · 3.30.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.30.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 30: Śūrpaṇakhā reaches Rāvaṇa’s court. The narrative recalls his conquests, tapas and protection from nonhuman enemies, leaving him vulnerable to a human

In the sequence: Seeing the army and its three leaders destroyed, Śūrpaṇakhā cries out and goes to Laṅkā

3.30.1

tataḥ śūrpaṇakhā dṛṣṭvā sahasrāṇi caturdaśa
hatāny ekena rāmeṇa rakṣasāṃ bhīmakarmaṇām

Then Śūrpaṇakhā, seeing that fourteen thousand rākṣasas of dreadful deeds had been slain by Rāma single-handed,

Words: tataḥ — then; śūrpaṇakhā — Śūrpaṇakhā; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; sahasrāṇi — thousand; caturdaśa — fourteen; hatāny — slain; ekena — by one, single-handed; rāmeṇa — by Rāma; rakṣasāṃ — of rākṣasas; bhīmakarmaṇām — of dreadful deeds

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.