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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.41.40

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 41: Rāma pursues the deer. Lakṣmaṇa suspects Mārīca, Sītā asks for the living animal or its hide and Rāma leaves Lakṣmaṇa to guard her

In the sequence: he recalls Agastya's destruction of Vātāpi and says the same fate awaits a rākṣasa who underestimates him

3.41.40

sa kadā cic cirāl loke āsasāda mahāmunim
agastyaṃ tejasā yuktaṃ bhakṣyas tasya babhūva ha

Once, after a long while, he came upon the great sage Agastya, full of power, in the world, and became his food.

Words: sa — he; kadā cic — once; cirāl loke — after a long time, in the world; āsasāda — came upon, encountered; mahāmunim — the great sage; agastyaṃ — Agastya; tejasā yuktaṃ — endowed with power; bhakṣyas tasya — his food; babhūva ha — became

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.