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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.46.4

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 46: Rāvaṇa boasts of his power. He recounts defeating Kubera and seizing Puṣpaka, offers Laṅkā’s pleasures and is rebuked by Sītā for disgracing his lineage

In the sequence: he recounts defeating Kubera and seizing Puṣpaka, saying that Kubera now lives on Kailāsa after abandoning his former home

3.46.4

yena vaiśravaṇo bhrātā vaimātraḥ kāraṇāntare
dvandvam āsāditaḥ krodhād raṇe vikramya nirjitaḥ

by whom his half-brother Vaiśravaṇa, on some occasion, was in anger engaged in single combat and, by sheer valour, defeated in battle;

Words: yena — by whom; vaiśravaṇo — Vaiśravaṇa; bhrātā — the brother; vaimātraḥ — born of another mother, half-; kāraṇāntare — on some occasion, for some cause; dvandvam — to single combat, a duel; āsāditaḥ — was brought, engaged; krodhād — out of anger; raṇe — in battle; vikramya — having shown valour; nirjitaḥ — defeated, vanquished

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.