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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.26

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 45: Rāvaṇa reveals his identity. Sītā recounts her marriage and exile, he offers Queenship in Laṅkā and she rejects him with warnings of destruction

In the sequence: he says her beauty has made him dissatisfied with his own wives and offers to make her his chief Queen in island Laṅkā, served by five thousand attendants

3.45.26

tatra sīte mayā sārdhaṃ vaneṣu vicariṣyasi
na cāsyāraṇyavāsasya spṛhayiṣyasi bhāmini

'There, O Sītā, you shall roam the groves with me, and you will no longer yearn for this life in the wilderness, O lovely one.'

Words: tatra — there; sīte — O Sītā; mayā — with me; sārdhaṃ — together; vaneṣu — in the groves; vicariṣyasi — you will roam; na — not; cāsyāraṇyavāsasya — and for this forest-dwelling; spṛhayiṣyasi — you will yearn; bhāmini — O lovely lady

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.