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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.16

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Mārīca’s warning. He corrects Rāvaṇa’s account of Rāma’s exile, praises Rāma’s character and urges consultation before a plan that could destroy Laṅkā

In the sequence: he praises Rāma's character and compares abducting Sītā to seizing the sun's radiance or entering a blazing fire

3.35.16

dhanurvyāditadīptāsyaṃ śarārciṣam amarṣaṇam
cāpabāṇadharaṃ vīraṃ śatrusenāpahāriṇam

(That fire is) the hero—his blazing mouth gaping wide as a drawn bow, with arrows for flames, unforbearing, wielding bow and arrow, sweeper-away of enemy armies—

Words: dhanurvyāditadīptāsyaṃ — with blazing mouth gaping like a drawn bow; śarārciṣam — with arrows for flames; amarṣaṇam — unforbearing, impatient; cāpabāṇadharaṃ — wielding bow and arrow; vīraṃ — the hero; śatrusenāpahāriṇam — destroyer of enemy armies

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.