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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.15

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 praises Rāma's character and compares abducting Sītā to seizing the sun's radiance or entering a blazing fire

3.35.15

śarārciṣam anādhṛṣyaṃ cāpakhaḍgendhanaṃ raṇe
rāmāgniṃ sahasā dīptaṃ na praveṣṭuṃ tvam arhasi

You must not rush headlong into the fire that is Rāma—blazing in battle, with arrows for flames, unassailable, fed by bow and sword for fuel.

Words: śarārciṣam — with arrows for flames; anādhṛṣyaṃ — unassailable; cāpakhaḍgendhanaṃ — fuelled by bow and sword; raṇe — in battle; rāmāgniṃ — the fire that is Rāma; sahasā — suddenly, rashly; dīptaṃ — blazing; na praveṣṭuṃ — not to enter; tvam — you; arhasi — ought

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.