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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.47.8

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

3.47.8

sa parivrājakacchadma mahākāyo vihāya tat
pratipede svakaṃ rūpaṃ rāvaṇo rākṣasādhipaḥ

Casting off that disguise of a wandering mendicant, the huge-bodied Rāvaṇa, lord of the rākṣasas, resumed his own form.

Words: sa — he; parivrājakacchadma — the disguise of a wandering mendicant; mahākāyo — the huge-bodied one; vihāya — abandoning; tat — that; pratipede — took on, resumed; svakaṃ — his own; rūpaṃ — form; rāvaṇo — Rāvaṇa; rākṣasādhipaḥ — lord of the rākṣasas

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.