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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.18

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

3.35.18

aprameyaṃ hi tat tejo yasya sā janakātmajā
na tvaṃ samarthas tāṃ hartuṃ rāmacāpāśrayāṃ vane

Immeasurable indeed is the might of him whose wife is that daughter of Janaka; you are not able to carry her off in the forest, sheltered as she is by Rāma's bow.

Words: aprameyaṃ — immeasurable; hi — indeed; tat tejo — that might, splendour; yasya — whose; sā janakātmajā — (is) that daughter of Janaka; na tvaṃ — you not; samarthas — able; tāṃ — her; hartuṃ — to carry off; rāmacāpāśrayāṃ — sheltered by Rāma's bow; vane — in 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.