Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 22, Shloka 33
सागरप्रशमनम् / The Pacification of the Ocean and the Building of Nala’s Bridge
तैस्तुसंस्पर्शनंपापैर्नसहेपापकर्मभिः ।अमोघःक्रियतांराम: तत्रतेषुशरोत्तमः ।।।।
tais tu saṃsparśanaṃ pāpair na sahe pāpa-karmabhiḥ | amoghaḥ kriyatāṃ rāma tatra teṣu śarottamaḥ ||
त्या पापकर्म करणाऱ्या पापी जनांचा स्पर्शही मला सहन होत नाही। म्हणून, हे रामा, त्यांच्यावर तुझा श्रेष्ठ अमोघ बाण सोड।
"Rama! I cannot tolerate the touch of ones who are sinful in action. Therefore your (of descending this arrow down) mighty unfailing arrow can be released on them."
FAQs
Punishment must be discriminating: force should be aimed at culpable wrongdoers. The Ocean frames the arrow’s redirection as moral purification and protection of order.
The Ocean requests Rāma to use the already-prepared unfailing arrow against the sinful marauders rather than against the sea.
Justice aligned with purity: intolerance of sustained wrongdoing and the desire to remove harmful agents from a sacred/natural domain.