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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.11

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

3.50.11

prahṛṣṭā vyathitāś cāsan sarve te paramarṣayaḥ
dṛṣṭvā sītāṃ parāmṛṣṭāṃ daṇḍakāraṇyavāsinaḥ

All those great seers dwelling in the Daṇḍaka forest were at once gladdened and troubled at seeing Sītā seized.

Words: prahṛṣṭā — gladdened; vyathitāś — troubled, distressed; cāsan — and were; sarve — all; te — those; paramarṣayaḥ — great seers; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; sītāṃ — Sītā; parāmṛṣṭāṃ — seized; daṇḍakāraṇyavāsinaḥ — dwellers of the Daṇḍaka forest

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.