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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.34.8
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 recounts Rāma's destruction of the fourteen thousand and their leaders
3.34.8
caturdaśa sahasrāṇi rakṣasāṃ bhīmakarmaṇām
nihatāni śarais tīkṣṇair mānuṣeṇa padātinā
Fourteen thousand rākṣasas of terrible deeds were slain with sharp arrows by a single man on foot.
Words: caturdaśa — fourteen; sahasrāṇi — thousands; rakṣasāṃ — of rākṣasas; bhīmakarmaṇām — of terrible deeds; nihatāni — slain; śarais tīkṣṇair — with sharp arrows; mānuṣeṇa — by a man, a human; padātinā — on foot, a foot-soldier
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.