Araṇya Kāṇḍa 33: Rāvaṇa’s flight and Garuḍa’s story · 3.33.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 33: Rāvaṇa’s flight and Garuḍa’s story. He passes the banyan of Garuḍa’s broken branch and amṛta quest, then reaches Mārīca’s hermitage

In the sequence: After hearing Śūrpaṇakhā, Rāvaṇa dismisses his ministers and settles on a course of action

3.33.1

tataḥ śūrpaṇakhā vākyaṃ tac chrutvā romaharṣaṇam
sacivān abhyanujñāya kāryaṃ buddhvā jagāma ha

Then, having heard that hair-raising speech of Śūrpaṇakhā, and dismissing his ministers, having resolved on his course, he set out.

Words: tataḥ — then; śūrpaṇakhā — of Śūrpaṇakhā (compound-initial); vākyaṃ — speech, words; tac chrutvā — having heard that; romaharṣaṇam — hair-raising; sacivān — the ministers; abhyanujñāya — having dismissed, taken leave of; kāryaṃ — the task, business; buddhvā — having understood, resolved; jagāma ha — he departed

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.