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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.39.2

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 asks who has advised Rāvaṇa into this trap and suggests that such advice serves his enemies

3.39.2

kenāyam upadiṣṭas te vināśaḥ pāpakarmaṇā
saputrasya sarāṣṭrasya sāmātyasya niśācara

By what evil-doer was this destruction of you counselled—of you together with your sons, your kingdom, and your ministers, O night-ranger?

Words: kenāyam — by whom this; upadiṣṭas — counselled, pointed out; te — to, for you; vināśaḥ — destruction; pāpakarmaṇā — by an evil-doer; saputrasya — together with your sons; sarāṣṭrasya — with your kingdom; sāmātyasya — with your ministers; niśācara — O night-ranger

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.