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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.34.12
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
3.34.12
yena vairaṃ vināraṇye sattvam āśritya kevalam
karṇanāsāpahāreṇa bhaginī me virūpitā
by whom, without cause for enmity, in the forest, relying merely on brute force, my sister was disfigured by the cutting off of her ears and nose.
Words: yena — by whom; vairaṃ — enmity, cause for hostility; vināraṇye — without, in the forest; sattvam — brute strength, force; āśritya — relying on, resorting to; kevalam — merely, only; karṇanāsāpahāreṇa — by the cutting off of ears and nose; bhaginī — sister; me — my; virūpitā — disfigured, deformed
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.