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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.37.12

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

3.37.12

te bāṇā vajrasaṃkāśāḥ sughorā raktabhojanāḥ
ājagmuḥ sahitāḥ sarve trayaḥ saṃnataparvaṇaḥ

those arrows, like thunderbolts, most terrible, blood-drinking, all three came together, with well-jointed shafts.

Words: te bāṇā — those arrows; vajrasaṃkāśāḥ — like thunderbolts; sughorā — most terrible; raktabhojanāḥ — blood-drinking; ājagmuḥ — came; sahitāḥ — together; sarve — all; trayaḥ — three; saṃnataparvaṇaḥ — with well-jointed shafts (smooth-knotted)

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.