Chapter 71 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 71

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 71.86

तं ब्रह्मणोऽस्त्रेण नियुज्य चापे शरं सपुवं यमदूतकल्पम्। सौमित्रिरिन्द्रारिसुतस्य तस्य ससर्ज बाणं युधि वज्रकल्पम्॥

taṃ brahmaṇo'streṇa niyujya cāpe śaraṃ sapuvaṃ yamadūtakalpam| saumitririndrārisutasya tasya sasarja bāṇaṃ yudhi vajrakalpam||

English Meaning

And inspiring that arrow furnished with a feathered part and resembling an emissary of Yama himself, and fixing the same on his bow, Sumitrā's son in that encounter discharged that shaft like to the thunder-bolt at the son of the enemy of Indra.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)