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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.32
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: to save them, he carried the branch away along with his prey → after freeing the munis, he used the branch to destroy a Niṣāda territory and ate his prey
3.33.32
ekapādena dharmātmā bhakṣayitvā tad āmiṣam
niṣādaviṣayaṃ hatvā śākhayā patagottamaḥ
praharṣam atulaṃ lebhe mokṣayitvā mahāmunīn
That righteous best of birds, eating that flesh with one foot, and destroying with the branch a territory of the Niṣādas, attained matchless joy, having freed the great sages.
Words: ekapādena — with one foot; dharmātmā — the righteous one; bhakṣayitvā — having eaten; tad āmiṣam — that flesh; niṣādaviṣayaṃ — a territory of the Niṣādas; hatvā — having destroyed; śākhayā — with the branch; patagottamaḥ — best of birds; praharṣam — joy, delight; atulaṃ — matchless; lebhe — obtained; mokṣayitvā — having freed, rescued; mahāmunīn — the great sages
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.