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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.5

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: Śūrpaṇakhā describes his appearance, bow, and extraordinary speed: she could see the army falling but could not follow the movements by which he shot

3.32.5

dīrghabāhur viśālākṣaś cīrakṛṣṇājināmbaraḥ
kandarpasamarūpaś ca rāmo daśarathātmajaḥ

Long-armed, wide-eyed, clad in bark-cloth and black antelope-skin, and equal in beauty to Kandarpa, is Rāma, the son of Daśaratha.

Words: dīrghabāhur — long-armed; viśālākṣaś — wide-eyed; cīrakṛṣṇājināmbaraḥ — clad in bark-cloth and black antelope-skin; kandarpasamarūpaś ca — and equal in beauty to Kandarpa (the love-god); rāmo — Rāma; daśarathātmajaḥ — son of Daśaratha

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.