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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.32.9
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
3.32.9
rakṣasāṃ bhīmavīryāṇāṃ sahasrāṇi caturdaśa
nihatāni śarais tīkṣṇais tenaikena padātinā
Fourteen thousand rākṣasas of dreadful might were slain with sharp arrows by him alone, and on foot.
Words: rakṣasāṃ — of rākṣasas; bhīmavīryāṇāṃ — of dreadful might; sahasrāṇi — thousands; caturdaśa — fourteen; nihatāni — slain; śarais tīkṣṇais — with sharp arrows; tenaikena — by him alone; padātinā — on foot, a foot-soldier
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.