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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.66.8

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 66: Kabandha’s arms severed. Lakṣmaṇa proposes cutting their captor’s arms, the brothers strike together and Kabandha recognizes the foretold means of his release

In the sequence: Kabandha falls with a tremendous roar and again asks who they are

3.66.8

sa nikṛttau bhujau dṛṣṭvā śoṇitaughapariplutaḥ
dīnaḥ papraccha tau vīrau kau yuvām iti dānavaḥ

Seeing his two arms severed, drenched in a flood of blood, the dānava, wretched, asked the two heroes, “Who are you two?”

Words: sa — he; nikṛttau — severed (dual); bhujau — arms (dual); dṛṣṭvā — having seen; śoṇitaughapariplutaḥ — drenched in a flood of blood; dīnaḥ — wretched; papraccha — asked; tau — the two; vīrau — heroes (dual); kau — who (dual); yuvām — you two; iti — thus; dānavaḥ — the dānava

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.