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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.34.9

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

3.34.9

kharaś ca nihataḥ saṃkhye dūṣaṇaś ca nipātitaḥ
hatvā triśirasaṃ cāpi nirbhayā daṇḍakāḥ kṛtāḥ

And Khara was slain in battle and Dūṣaṇa struck down; and having killed Triśiras too, he made the Daṇḍaka forests free from fear.

Words: kharaś ca — and Khara; nihataḥ — slain; saṃkhye — in battle; dūṣaṇaś ca — and Dūṣaṇa; nipātitaḥ — struck down, felled; hatvā — having killed; triśirasaṃ cāpi — and Triśiras too; nirbhayā — free from fear; daṇḍakāḥ — the Daṇḍaka forests; kṛtāḥ — made

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.