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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.48

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: his anger expands beyond the unknown offender: he threatens to block the heavens with arrows, destroy mountains and waters, and overturn the worlds unless Sītā is restored unharmed.

3.60.48

mama roṣaprayuktānāṃ sāyakānāṃ balaṃ surāḥ
drakṣyanty adya vimuktānām amarṣād dūragāminām

“This very day the gods shall see the force of my arrows, sped by fury, loosed in wrath and flying far.

Words: mama — my; roṣaprayuktānāṃ — impelled by rage; sāyakānāṃ — of the arrows; balaṃ — the force, power; surāḥ — the gods; drakṣyanty — shall see; adya — today; vimuktānām — of the loosed ones; amarṣād — out of wrath, impatience; dūragāminām — of the far-flying ones

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.