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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.8
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
3.35.8
na ca pitrā parityakto nāmaryādaḥ kathaṃ cana
na lubdho na ca duḥśīlo na ca kṣatriyapāṃsanaḥ
Rāma was not abandoned by his father, nor is he in any way lacking in propriety; he is not greedy, nor of bad character, nor a disgrace to the kṣatriyas.
Words: na ca — and not; pitrā — by his father; parityakto — abandoned; nāmaryādaḥ — not without propriety; kathaṃ cana — in any way; na lubdho — not greedy; na ca duḥśīlo — nor of bad conduct; na ca kṣatriyapāṃsanaḥ — nor a disgrace to the kṣatriyas
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.