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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.31.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 31: Śūrpaṇakhā rebukes Rāvaṇa. She exposes his ignorance of Janasthāna’s destruction and warns that pleasure, failed intelligence and neglect will cost him his Kingdom
In the sequence: she points to his ignorance of Janasthāna's destruction: Rāma alone has killed fourteen thousand rākṣasas, including Khara and Dūṣaṇa, and made Daṇḍaka safe for the munis
3.31.10
ayuktacāraṃ manye tvāṃ prākṛtaiḥ sacivair vṛtam
svajanaṃ ca janasthānaṃ hataṃ yo nāvabudhyase
I consider your espionage ill-managed and you surrounded by common ministers, since you did not even perceive that your own people and Janasthāna had been destroyed.
Words: ayuktacāraṃ — with ill-managed espionage; manye — I consider; tvāṃ — you; prākṛtaiḥ — by common; sacivair — by ministers; vṛtam — surrounded; svajanaṃ ca — and your own people; janasthānaṃ — Janasthāna; hataṃ — destroyed, slain; yo — who; nāvabudhyase — you do not perceive
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.