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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.16

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: her yellow silk and ornaments shine against his dark body during the flight

3.50.16

tasyāḥ kauśeyam uddhūtam ākāśe kanakaprabham
babhau cādityarāgeṇa tāmram abhram ivātape

Her yellow silk, tossed up in the sky, golden-hued, glowed with the sun's redness like a copper-colored cloud in the sunlight.

Words: tasyāḥ — her; kauśeyam — silk garment; uddhūtam — tossed up, fluttering; ākāśe — in the sky; kanakaprabham — golden-hued; babhau — shone; cādityarāgeṇa — and with the sun's redness; tāmram — coppery; abhram — cloud; ivātape — as in the sunlight

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.