Chapter 4 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 4

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 4.46

सर्वं चैतद्विनाशाय राक्षसानामुपस्थितम्। काले कालगृहीतानां नक्षत्रं ग्रहपीडितम्॥

sarvaṃ caitadvināśāya rākṣasānāmupasthitam| kāle kālagṛhītānāṃ nakṣatraṃ grahapīḍitam||

English Meaning

All this is for the destruction of the Rākşasas. At the fated time, those that are in the clutches of Death, have their stars afflicted by the planets.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)