Shloka 3.36.11
मारीचप्रलोभनम् / Ravana Solicits Maricha’s Aid (Golden Deer Stratagem)
दुश्शीलः कर्कशस्तीक्ष्णो मूर्खो लुब्धोऽजितेन्द्रियः।।।।त्यक्तधर्मो ह्यधर्मात्मा भूतानामहिते रतः।
duśśīlaḥ karkaśas tīkṣṇo mūrkho lubdho 'jitendriyaḥ | tyakta-dharmo hy adharma-ātmā bhūtānām ahite rataḥ || 3.36.11 ||
He is ill-conducted, harsh, foolish, greedy, and has no control over his senses; he has abandoned righteousness and delights in harming living beings.
He is a man of bad conduct, harsh, sharp-tonged, stupid, miserly and a slave to his senses. He is immoral and unrighteous, one who is busy harming others.
The verse is a negative ethical example: speech that abandons satya and dharma becomes a tool of violence; character assassination is itself an adharma that prepares the mind for further wrongdoing.
Rāvaṇa attempts to persuade Mārīca by portraying Rāma as immoral and harmful, thereby trying to make cooperation in a deceitful plot appear acceptable.
Indirectly, the virtue at stake is self-mastery (jitendriyatā) and righteous conduct; Rāvaṇa’s accusations invert these ideals, revealing his own moral confusion.