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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.46.14

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 46: Rāvaṇa boasts of his power. He recounts defeating Kubera and seizing Puṣpaka, offers Laṅkā’s pleasures and is rebuked by Sītā for disgracing his lineage

In the sequence: he describes Laṅkā's walls, golden courts, gardens, traffic, and abundance, promising Sītā pleasures that will make her forget Rāma

3.46.14

bhuñjānā mānuṣān bhogān divyāṃś ca varavarṇini
na smariṣyasi rāmasya mānuṣasya gatāyuṣaḥ

Enjoying pleasures both human and divine, O lovely-hued one, you will not remember Rāma, a mortal whose life is already spent.

Words: bhuñjānā — enjoying; mānuṣān — human; bhogān — pleasures, enjoyments; divyāṃś ca — and divine; varavarṇini — O lovely-hued one; na — not; smariṣyasi — you will remember; rāmasya — Rāma; mānuṣasya — a mortal, human; gatāyuṣaḥ — whose life is gone

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.