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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.46.16

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 belittles Rāma as a weak, dispossessed tapasvin and urges her not to reject him

3.46.16

tena kiṃ bhraṣṭarājyena rāmeṇa gatacetasā
kariṣyasi viśālākṣi tāpasena tapasvinā

What will you do, O wide-eyed one, with that Rāma — fallen from his kingdom, out of his wits, a wretched ascetic?

Words: tena — with that; kiṃ — what; bhraṣṭarājyena — fallen from his kingdom; rāmeṇa — Rāma; gatacetasā — out of his senses; kariṣyasi — will you do; viśālākṣi — O wide-eyed one; tāpasena — an ascetic; tapasvinā — a wretched one, one practising austerity

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.