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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.12

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: Rāvaṇa lifts Sītā and rises again as she calls the brothers' names

3.50.12

sa tu tāṃ rāma rāmeti rudantīṃ lakṣmaṇeti ca
jagāmākāśam ādāya rāvaṇo rākṣasādhipaḥ

But Rāvaṇa, the lord of rākṣasas, taking up her who wept 'Rāma, Rāma!' and 'Lakṣmaṇa!', rose into the sky.

Words: sa — he; tu — but; tāṃ — her; rāma — 'Rāma...; rāmeti — ...Rāma!' thus; rudantīṃ — weeping; lakṣmaṇeti — 'Lakṣmaṇa!' thus; ca — and; jagāmākāśam — went into the sky; ādāya — having taken up; rāvaṇo — Rāvaṇa; rākṣasādhipaḥ — the lord of rākṣasas

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.