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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.39.18

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 39: Mārīca’s final warning. He condemns advisers who fail to restrain a destructive ruler and predicts that the abduction will kill them both and ruin Laṅkā

In the sequence: expecting Rāma to kill him, he says at least he will die at an enemy's hands → Rāvaṇa should regard his own death and that of his relatives as equally certain once he takes Sītā

3.39.18

darśanād eva rāmasya hataṃ mām upadhāraya
ātmānaṃ ca hataṃ viddhi hṛtvā sītāṃ sabāndhavam

Regard me as slain at the very sight of Rāma; and once you have carried off Sītā, know yourself, with your kinsmen, as slain.

Words: darśanād eva — at the very sight; rāmasya — of Rāma; hataṃ — slain; mām — me; upadhāraya — regard, consider; ātmānaṃ ca — and yourself; hataṃ — slain; viddhi — know; hṛtvā sītāṃ — having carried off Sītā; sabāndhavam — together with your kinsmen

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.