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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.33

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Traces of Sītā’s abduction. Flowers, footprints, blood and chariot wreckage suggest a struggle, Rāma’s uncertainty turns to threats against the whole world

In the sequence: he examines a broken jeweled bow, shattered armor, a broken parasol, dead goblin-faced draft animals, the wrecked chariot, and scattered arrows, asking who owned them

3.60.33

rathākṣamātrā viśikhās tapanīyavibhūṣaṇāḥ
kasyeme 'bhihatā bāṇāḥ prakīrṇā ghorakarmaṇaḥ

“These arrows the size of a chariot-axle, adorned with gold — cast about and spent — whose are they, belonging to some doer of dreadful deeds?”

Words: rathākṣamātrā — the size of a chariot-axle; viśikhās — shafts, arrows; tapanīyavibhūṣaṇāḥ — adorned with gold; kasyeme — whose these; 'bhihatā — struck down, spent; bāṇāḥ — arrows; prakīrṇā — scattered, cast about; ghorakarmaṇaḥ — of one of dreadful deeds

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.