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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.37.11

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: Rāma shot three arrows → remembering the earlier blow, Mārīca sprang away and escaped, but his two companions were killed

3.37.11

tena muktās trayo bāṇāḥ śitāḥ śatrunibarhaṇāḥ
vikṛṣya balavac cāpaṃ suparṇānilatulyagāḥ

Drawing his bow with force, he loosed three sharp, foe-crushing arrows, flying swift as Garuḍa and the wind,

Words: tena muktās — loosed by him; trayo bāṇāḥ — three arrows; śitāḥ — sharp, whetted; śatrunibarhaṇāḥ — foe-crushing; vikṛṣya — having drawn; balavac cāpaṃ — the bow forcefully; suparṇānilatulyagāḥ — flying like Garuḍa and the wind

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.