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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.43

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 insists that Rāvaṇa is as far below Rāma as lead below gold or a crow below Garuḍa, and that abducting her will destroy him

3.45.43

tasmin sahasrākṣasamaprabhāve rāme sthite kārmukabāṇapāṇau
hṛtāpi te 'haṃ na jarāṃ gamiṣye vajraṃ yathā makṣikayāvagīrṇam

'While that Rāma stands, mighty as the thousand-eyed god, with bow and arrow in hand — even if carried off by you, I shall never be consumed by you, any more than a fly can digest a swallowed diamond.'

Words: tasmin — when that; sahasrākṣasamaprabhāve — of might equal to the thousand-eyed (Indra); rāme — (when) Rāma; sthite — stands; kārmukabāṇapāṇau — with bow and arrow in hand; hṛtāpi — even if carried off; te — by you; 'haṃ — I; na — not; jarāṃ — to being consumed, digested; gamiṣye — I will go, come; vajraṃ — a diamond; yathā — as; makṣikayāvagīrṇam — swallowed by a fly

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.