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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Mārīca’s warning. He corrects Rāvaṇa’s account of Rāma’s exile, praises Rāma’s character and urges consultation before a plan that could destroy Laṅkā
In the sequence: he corrects Rāvaṇa's account: Rāma was not expelled for misconduct, but voluntarily honored the promise that Kaikeyī had extracted from Daśaratha
3.35.10
vañcitaṃ pitaraṃ dṛṣṭvā kaikeyyā satyavādinam
kariṣyāmīti dharmātmā tataḥ pravrajito vanam
Seeing his truthful father deceived by Kaikeyī, the righteous one said, 'I shall do as promised,' and thereupon went forth to the forest.
Words: vañcitaṃ — deceived; pitaraṃ — father; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; kaikeyyā — by Kaikeyī; satyavādinam — truthful, truth-speaking; kariṣyāmīti — 'I shall do (it),'; dharmātmā — the righteous one; tataḥ — thereupon, then; pravrajito — went forth (as an exile); vanam — to the forest
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.