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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 50: Rāvaṇa seizes Sītā again. He tears her from the trees and resumes the flight, flowers and ornaments fall while the landscape shares her distress

In the sequence: darkness and disorder spread through the world → Brahmā, seeing the abduction with divine sight, declares the task accomplished, while the forest munis feel both satisfaction and distress

3.50.10

dṛṣṭvā sītāṃ parāmṛṣṭāṃ dīnāṃ divyena cakṣuṣā
kṛtaṃ kāryam iti śrīmān vyājahāra pitāmahaḥ

Seeing Sītā seized and wretched with his divine eye, the glorious Grandsire declared, 'The task is accomplished.'

Words: dṛṣṭvā — having seen; sītāṃ — Sītā; parāmṛṣṭāṃ — seized, laid hold of; dīnāṃ — wretched, miserable; divyena — with divine; cakṣuṣā — eye; kṛtaṃ — done, accomplished; kāryam — the task; iti — thus; śrīmān — the glorious one; vyājahāra — declared, uttered; pitāmahaḥ — the Grandsire (Brahmā)

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. 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.