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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.39.5

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

3.39.5

kenedam upadiṣṭaṃ te kṣudreṇāhitavādinā
yas tvām icchati naśyantaṃ svakṛtena niśācara

By what mean, ill-speaking one was this counselled to you—one who wishes you to perish by your own deed, O night-ranger?

Words: kenedam — by whom this; upadiṣṭaṃ — counselled; te — to you; kṣudreṇāhitavādinā — by a mean, ill-speaking one; yas — who; tvām — you; icchati — wishes; naśyantaṃ — perishing; svakṛtena — by your own deed; 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.