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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.5

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

3.35.5

api te jīvitāntāya notpannā janakātmajā
api sītā nimittaṃ ca na bhaved vyasanaṃ mahat

Has not Janaka's daughter been born to bring about your death? May not Sītā prove the cause of a great calamity?

Words: api — (whether); te — your, for you; jīvitāntāya — for the end of your life; notpannā — has not been born; janakātmajā — the daughter of Janaka; api — (whether); sītā — Sītā; nimittaṃ ca — and the cause; na bhaved — might not become; vyasanaṃ — calamity, disaster; mahat — great

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.