Chapter 4 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 4

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 4.8

स विद्धो बहुभिर्बाणैः खङ्गाभ्यां च परिक्षतः। निष्पिष्टो बहुधा भूमौ न ममार स राक्षसः॥

sa viddho bahubhirbāṇaiḥ khaṅgābhyāṃ ca parikṣataḥ| niṣpiṣṭo bahudhā bhūmau na mamāra sa rākṣasaḥ||

English Meaning

Although he was sore pierced by full many an arrow and cut shortly by scimitars, and pressed down on the earth in various ways, yet the Rākşasa expired not.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)