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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.39.19

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: Mārīca concludes that the scheme will destroy both of them, Laṅkā, and its people, but recognizes that Rāvaṇa will not listen.

3.39.19

ānayiṣyāmi cet sītām āśramāt sahito mayā
naiva tvam asi naivāhaṃ naiva laṅkā na rākṣasāḥ

If I shall bring Sītā from the hermitage together with you, then neither will you exist, nor I, nor Laṅkā, nor the rākṣasas.

Words: ānayiṣyāmi cet — if I shall bring; sītām — Sītā; āśramāt — from the hermitage; sahito mayā — together with me; naiva tvam asi — neither will you be; naivāhaṃ — nor I; naiva laṅkā — nor Laṅkā; na rākṣasāḥ — nor the rākṣasas

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.