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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.43.15

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 43: Lakṣmaṇa leaves Sītā. He identifies the cry as deception, but her accusations overcome his resolve to stay and he departs toward Rāma

In the sequence: Lakṣmaṇa answers that no enemy can overcome Rāma and that the voice must be a rākṣasa's deception

3.43.15

na sa tasya svaro vyaktaṃ na kaś cid api daivataḥ
gandharvanagaraprakhyā māyā sā tasya rakṣasaḥ

That was clearly not his voice, nor was it any voice of a god; it was an illusion of that rākṣasa, like a phantom gandharva-city.

Words: na — not; sa — that; tasya — his (Rāma's); svaro — voice; vyaktaṃ — clearly; na — not; kaś — any; cid — (at all); api — even; daivataḥ — of a god, divine; gandharvanagaraprakhyā — like a phantom gandharva-city (mirage); māyā — an illusion; sā — that; tasya — of that; rakṣasaḥ — rākṣasa

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.