Chapter 70 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 70

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 70.8

ततस्तौ देशकालज्ञौ खङ्गाभ्यामेष राघवौ। अच्छिन्दन्तां सुसंहृष्टौ बाहू तस्यांसदेशयोः ॥

tatastau deśakālajñau khaṅgābhyāmeṣa rāghavau| acchindantāṃ susaṃhṛṣṭau bāhū tasyāṃsadeśayoḥ ||

English Meaning

Thereat Rāma and Lakşmana, cognizant of time and place, pleased+, sundered its arms off its shoulders with their daggers. They were pleased because they cut off its arms with ease like to the trunks of a plantain tree.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)