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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.9

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: Rāma sees the great blood-covered bird lying on the ground and wrongly assumes it is a rākṣasa in vulture form that has eaten Sītā

3.63.9

kruddho rāmaḥ śaraṃ ghoraṃ saṃdhāya dhanuṣi kṣuram
tataḥ parvatakūṭābhaṃ mahābhāgaṃ dvijottamam

Enraged, Rāma fitted to his bow a dreadful razor-tipped arrow; then, the illustrious best of birds, resembling a mountain-peak—

Words: kruddho — enraged; rāmaḥ — Rāma; śaraṃ — arrow; ghoraṃ — dreadful; saṃdhāya — having fitted, nocked; dhanuṣi — on the bow; kṣuram — razor-tipped (arrow); tataḥ — then; parvatakūṭābhaṃ — resembling a mountain-peak; mahābhāgaṃ — the illustrious, blessed one; dvijottamam — the best of birds

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.