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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.4

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 warns that Rāvaṇa does not understand Rāma and may destroy Laṅkā and the entire rākṣasa people through his recklessness

3.35.4

api svasti bhavet tāta sarveṣāṃ bhuvi rakṣasām
api rāmo na saṃkruddhaḥ kuryāl lokam arākṣasaṃ

Will there be well-being, my dear, for all the rākṣasas on earth? May Rāma, enraged, not make the world empty of rākṣasas!

Words: api — (whether); interrogative particle; svasti — well-being, safety; bhavet — might be; tāta — my dear; sarveṣāṃ — of all; bhuvi — on earth; rakṣasām — of the rākṣasas; api — (whether); rāmo — Rāma; na saṃkruddhaḥ — (not) enraged; kuryāl — might make; lokam — the world; arākṣasaṃ — empty of rākṣasas

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.