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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.67.5

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 67: Story of Kabandha. A ṛṣi’s curse and Indra’s thunderbolt produced his deformed body, he asks for cremation to restore his discernment and name a helpful ally

In the sequence: Kabandha begged for an end to the curse → Sthūlaśiras said that Rāma would cut off his arms and burn his body, restoring his original appearance.

3.67.5

sa mayā yācitaḥ kruddhaḥ śāpasyānto bhaved iti
abhiśāpakṛtasyeti tenedaṃ bhāṣitaṃ vacaḥ

“Entreated by me — though he was angry — that there might be an end to the curse he had laid on me, he spoke these words:

Words: sa — he; mayā — by me; yācitaḥ — entreated, begged; kruddhaḥ — angry; śāpasyānto — an end of the curse; bhaved — might there be; iti — thus; abhiśāpakṛtasyeti — ‘of the one on whom the curse was laid’, thus; tenedaṃ — by him this; bhāṣitaṃ — spoken; vacaḥ — word

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.