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Shloka 3.56.8

सीताया रावणनिन्दा — अशोकवनिकाप्रवेशः (Sita’s Rebuke of Ravana; Removal to the Ashoka Grove)

असुरैर्वा सुरैर्वा त्वं यद्यवध्योऽसि रावण।उत्पाद्य सुमहद्वैरं जीवंस्तस्य न मोक्ष्यसे।।।।

asurair vā surair vā tvaṃ yady avadhyo 'si rāvaṇa |

utpādya sumahad vairaṃ jīvaṃs tasya na mokṣyase ||

O Rāvaṇa, even if you are invulnerable to gods or demons, once you have provoked such great enmity with him, you will not escape with your life.

O Ravana, even if you stand invulnerable to gods and demons, you will not come out alive in the combat with Rama with whom you have earned great enmity.

R
Rāvaṇa
R
Rāma
A
asura (demons)
S
sura (gods)

Dharma teaches accountability: deliberately creating grave hostility against a righteous protector (Rāma) leads to inevitable consequences; power or “invulnerability” cannot cancel moral causality.

Marīca cautions Rāvaṇa against initiating conflict with Rāma, warning that the enmity Rāvaṇa has created will end in his death.

Prudence and truth-speaking counsel (hitavacana): Marīca attempts to restrain wrongful action by warning of its outcome.