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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.12
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Discovery of the wounded Jaṭāyu. Rāma mistakes him for Sītā’s killer, Jaṭāyu names Rāvaṇa and explains the wreckage, the brothers embrace him
In the sequence: he fits an arrow and rushes toward it
3.63.12
ity uktvābhyapatad gṛdhraṃ saṃdhāya dhanuṣi kṣuram
kruddho rāmaḥ samudrāntāṃ cālayann iva medinīm
Having spoken thus, fitting a razor-arrow to his bow, the enraged Rāma rushed upon the vulture, as if setting the sea-girt earth aquake.
Words: ity — thus; uktvābhyapatad — having spoken, he rushed upon; gṛdhraṃ — the vulture; saṃdhāya — having fitted; dhanuṣi — to the bow; kṣuram — razor-arrow; kruddho — enraged; rāmaḥ — Rāma; samudrāntāṃ — sea-bounded, sea-girt; cālayann — setting aquake, shaking; iva — as if; medinīm — the earth
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.