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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.32

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: she compares his desire to a jackal seeking a lioness and lists impossible, self-destructive acts as parallels for taking Rāma's wife

3.45.32

tvaṃ punar jambukaḥ siṃhīṃ mām ihecchasi durlabhām
nāhaṃ śakyā tvayā spraṣṭum ādityasya prabhā yathā

'You, a mere jackal, desire me here — a lioness, beyond your reach. You could no more touch me than lay hold of the radiance of the sun.'

Words: tvaṃ — you; punar — on the other hand; jambukaḥ — a jackal; siṃhīṃ — a lioness; mām — me; ihecchasi — here you desire; durlabhām — hard to attain; nāhaṃ — not I; śakyā — able (to be); tvayā — by you; spraṣṭum — to touch; ādityasya — of the sun; prabhā — the radiance; yathā — as

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.