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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.47.16

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 47: Sītā’s abduction. Rāvaṇa reveals his ten-faced form and lifts her into his flying chariot, she calls on the forest, river and Jaṭāyu to inform Rāma

In the sequence: he seizes her by the hair with his left hand and around the thighs with his right

3.47.16

vāmena sītāṃ padmākṣīṃ mūrdhajeṣu kareṇa saḥ
ūrvos tu dakṣiṇenaiva parijagrāha pāṇinā

With his left hand he seized the lotus-eyed Sītā by the hair, and with his right he grasped her about the thighs.

Words: vāmena — with (his) left; sītāṃ — Sītā; padmākṣīṃ — lotus-eyed; mūrdhajeṣu — by the hair; kareṇa — with (his) hand; saḥ — he; ūrvos — by the two thighs; tu — and; dakṣiṇenaiva — with the right only; parijagrāha — grasped; pāṇinā — with (his) hand

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.