Araṇya Kāṇḍa 37: Mārīca’s second defeat and terror · 3.37.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.37.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 37: Mārīca’s second defeat and terror. His deer-form attack costs two companions, he abandons violence but still sees and fears Rāma everywhere

In the sequence: Mārīca continues with a later episode: despite the first defeat, he returned to Daṇḍaka with two other rākṣasas, all in deer forms

3.37.1

evam asmi tadā muktaḥ kathaṃ cit tena saṃyuge
idānīm api yad vṛttaṃ tac chṛṇuṣva yad uttaram

Thus was I somehow let off by him then in the battle; now hear also what happened afterwards.

Words: evam asmi tadā muktaḥ — thus I was then released; kathaṃ cit — somehow; tena — by him; saṃyuge — in the battle; idānīm api — now too; yad vṛttaṃ — what happened; tac chṛṇuṣva — hear that; yad uttaram — which came after

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.