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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.34.5

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 34: Rāvaṇa’s abduction plan. Mārīca must become a golden deer to lure the brothers away, leaving Sītā unguarded and Rāma vulnerable to grief

In the sequence: he describes the Janasthāna force, admitting that it lived there under his orders and harassed the munis

3.34.5

caturdaśa sahasrāṇi rakṣasāṃ bhīmakarmaṇām
śūrāṇāṃ labdhalakṣāṇāṃ kharacittānuvartinām

Fourteen thousand rākṣasas of terrible deeds—heroes, sure of aim, following the will of Khara—

Words: caturdaśa — fourteen; sahasrāṇi — thousands; rakṣasāṃ — of rākṣasas; bhīmakarmaṇām — of terrible deeds; śūrāṇāṃ — of heroes; labdhalakṣāṇāṃ — sure of aim; kharacittānuvartinām — following Khara's will

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.