Shloka 6.113.20
रावणवधदर्शनम् — Lament of the Rākṣasa Women upon Seeing Rāvaṇa Slain
दिनिर्यातितातेस्वासतीतारामायमैथिली ।।।।ननस्स्याद्व्यसनंघोरमिदंमूलहरंमहत् ।
niryātitā te svā sītā rāmāya maithilī |
na naḥ syād vyasanaṃ ghoram idaṃ mūlaharaṃ mahat ||6.113.20||
Had you returned to Rāma his own wife, Sītā of Mithilā, this dreadful calamity—great and root-uprooting—would not have befallen us.
"If Sita, princess of Mithila had been returned by you, this great destruction of the very root and calamity with you and for us would not have happened."
Respecting marital sanctity and returning what is wrongfully taken is a dharmic imperative; refusal to correct wrongdoing invites devastating consequences.
The women identify the single corrective act—returning Sītā—that could have prevented the annihilation of Laṅkā’s foundations.
The virtue of repentance and restitution (prāyaścitta-like correction) is emphasized by its absence in Rāvaṇa.