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Shloka 3.30.7

खरवधः — The Slaying of Khara (Janasthana Battle Climax)

पांसुरूषितसर्वाङ्गस्स्रस्तन्यस्त भुजद्वयः।स्वप्स्यसे गां समालिङ्ग्य दुर्लभां प्रमदामिव।।।।

pāṃsurūṣita-sarvāṅgaḥ srasta-nyasta-bhujadvayaḥ |

svapsyase gāṃ samāliṅgya durlabhāṃ pramadām iva ||

Your whole body will be smeared with dust; your two arms will fall slack and lie outstretched on the ground. Embracing the earth, you will sleep—like one clasping a rare woman.

With all your limbs covered with dust, both the arms dropped down and stretched out on the ground, you will sleep as though hugging the earth, like embracing a rare woman.

R
Rama
E
Earth (gām)

The verse stresses the moral certainty of consequences for adharmic aggression: those who prey on the innocent meet an inevitable end. Rama’s words function as a dharmic warning that violence used for terror and oppression returns upon the perpetrator.

After the destruction of the rakshasa force in the Dandaka region, Rama issues a grim, vivid prediction to a demon adversary about his impending death and collapse on the ground.

Rama’s steadfastness in righteous protection (rakṣaṇa-dharma): he confronts cruelty directly and asserts justice without hesitation.