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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.34

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

3.45.34

kṣudhitasya ca siṃhasya mṛgaśatros tarasvinaḥ
āśīviṣasya vadanād daṃṣṭrām ādātum icchasi

'You wish to pluck the fang from the mouth of a venomous serpent — or of a hungry, swift lion, the slayer of beasts.'

Words: kṣudhitasya — of a hungry; ca — and; siṃhasya — lion; mṛgaśatros — slayer of beasts; tarasvinaḥ — swift, mighty; āśīviṣasya — of a venomous serpent; vadanād — from the mouth; daṃṣṭrām — a fang; ādātum — to take, pluck; icchasi — you wish

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.