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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.47.6

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 47: Sītā’s abduction. Rāvaṇa reveals his ten-faced form and lifts her into his flying chariot, she calls on the forest, river and Jaṭāyu to inform Rāma

In the sequence: he abandons the parivrājaka disguise and reveals his huge, ten-faced, armed form

3.47.6

sadyaḥ saumyaṃ parityajya bhikṣurūpaṃ sa rāvaṇaḥ
svaṃ rūpaṃ kālarūpābhaṃ bheje vaiśravaṇānujaḥ

At once casting off that gentle mendicant guise, Rāvaṇa, the younger brother of Vaiśravaṇa, assumed his own form, terrible as Death itself.

Words: sadyaḥ — at once; saumyaṃ — gentle, pleasing; parityajya — abandoning; bhikṣurūpaṃ — the mendicant form; sa — he; rāvaṇaḥ — Rāvaṇa; svaṃ — his own; rūpaṃ — form; kālarūpābhaṃ — resembling the form of Death; bheje — assumed, took on; vaiśravaṇānujaḥ — the younger brother of Vaiśravaṇa (Kubera)

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.