श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम्

A real, widely-kept practice or telling that this passage does not itself prescribe or narrate.

• Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sundara Kāṇḍa 18.3–6 Cited by Ravana was a scholar beyond measure and a great Shiva bhakta, but he protected neither devotees nor scholars.

  On waking, Rāvaṇa stepped over sleeping, unclothed women as he went out.

  Sundara 9–11 shows the women asleep in disarray, and 18.3–6 shows Rāvaṇa waking and going out to the grove. Neither passage says he trampled or stepped over them.

The passage says this in so many words.

• Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sundara Kāṇḍa 9.6 Cited by Ravana was a scholar beyond measure and a great Shiva bhakta, but he protected neither devotees nor scholars.

  Rāvaṇa's house held princesses he had carried off by force.

  9.70 says the opposite of most of them: none was won by force or loved another man, except Sītā.