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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.34.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 34: Rāvaṇa’s abduction plan. Mārīca must become a golden deer to lure the brothers away, leaving Sītā unguarded and Rāma vulnerable to grief
In the sequence: he then portrays Rāma as a vicious, disgraced exile and claims that Śūrpaṇakhā was mutilated without provocation
3.34.10
pitrā nirastaḥ kruddhena sabhāryaḥ kṣīṇajīvitaḥ
sa hantā tasya sainyasya rāmaḥ kṣatriyapāṃsanaḥ
Banished by his angry father, together with his wife, his fortunes ruined—that Rāma, a disgrace to the kṣatriyas, is the slayer of that army.
Words: pitrā — by (his) father; nirastaḥ — cast out, banished; kruddhena — angry; sabhāryaḥ — together with his wife; kṣīṇajīvitaḥ — whose livelihood is ruined; sa — he; hantā — the slayer; tasya sainyasya — of that army; rāmaḥ — Rāma; kṣatriyapāṃsanaḥ — a disgrace to the kṣatriyas
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.