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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 32: Śūrpaṇakhā describes Sītā. She recounts Rāma’s victory, praises Sītā’s beauty and urges Rāvaṇa to kill the brothers and take her as his wife
In the sequence: she reports that he fought alone on foot and destroyed Khara and Dūṣaṇa in little more than half a muhūrta → she says she survived because he would not kill a woman
3.32.10
ardhādhikamuhūrtena kharaś ca sahadūṣaṇaḥ
ṛṣīṇām abhayaṃ dattaṃ kṛtakṣemāś ca daṇḍakāḥ
In a little over half a muhūrta, Khara together with Dūṣaṇa was destroyed; safety was granted to the sages, and the Daṇḍaka regions were made secure.
Words: ardhādhikamuhūrtena — in more than half a muhūrta; kharaś ca — and Khara; sahadūṣaṇaḥ — together with Dūṣaṇa; ṛṣīṇām — to the sages; abhayaṃ — safety, freedom from fear; dattaṃ — granted, given; kṛtakṣemāś — made secure; ca — and; daṇḍakāḥ — the Daṇḍaka (forests)
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.