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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.54.7
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 54: Rāvaṇa’s deadline and threat. Sītā refuses him, he gives her twelve months to submit or be killed for his meal, then sends her to the aśoka grove
In the sequence: she reaffirms her marriage and says Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa will kill him → had he attempted the abduction in Rāma's presence, he would already have died like Khara
3.54.7
tasya jyāvipramuktās te śarāḥ kāñcanabhūṣaṇāḥ
śarīraṃ vidhamiṣyanti gaṅgākūlam ivormayaḥ
His arrows, gold-adorned, loosed from the bowstring, will tear your body apart as waves tear the bank of the Gaṅgā.
Words: tasya — his; jyāvipramuktās — loosed from the bowstring; te — those; śarāḥ — arrows; kāñcanabhūṣaṇāḥ — gold-adorned; śarīraṃ — (your) body; vidhamiṣyanti — will tear apart, shatter; gaṅgākūlam — the bank of the Gaṅgā; ivormayaḥ — as the waves
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.