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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.33

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

3.45.33

pādapān kāñcanān nūnaṃ bahūn paśyasi mandabhāk
rāghavasya priyāṃ bhāryāṃ yas tvam icchasi rāvaṇa

'Surely, ill-fated one, you are seeing many golden trees — you, Rāvaṇa, who covet the beloved wife of Rāghava!'

Words: pādapān — trees; kāñcanān — golden; nūnaṃ — surely; bahūn — many; paśyasi — you see; mandabhāk — ill-fated one; rāghavasya — of Rāghava; priyāṃ — beloved; bhāryāṃ — wife; yas — who; tvam — you; icchasi — desire; rāvaṇa — O Rāvaṇa

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.